Philosopher · Age of revolutions and empire · Germany
Arthur Schopenhauer
1788–1860
German pessimist whose World as Will and Representation of 1818 taught that a blind striving will drives all things and that release comes through art and denial. Ignored for decades, he became famous late. He lived 1788 to 1860.
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- Born
- 1788, Danzig, in what is now Poland.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Arthur Schopenhauer
- Died
- 1860, Frankfurt, Germany.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Arthur Schopenhauer
- School
- Post Kantian pessimism, drawing on Indian thought.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Arthur Schopenhauer
- Known for
- The world as will and representation, and the ethics of compassion and ascetic denial.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Arthur Schopenhauer
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