The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), whose pessimistic philosophy was widely known in the late 19th century in Europe and the United States, held that ultimate reality was nothing but senseless striving or will, having no divine...

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), whose pessimistic philosophy was widely known in the late nineteenth century in Europe and the United States, held that ultimate reality was nothing but senseless striving or will, having no...

One of the leading German metaphysicians of the nineteenth century, Arthur Schopenhauer is exceptional in having had a widespread influence outside of philosophy; among his admirers may be counted such figures as Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche,...

. 1788–1860. Born in Danzig and educated partly in France and England, he worked mostly in Germany. He admired KANT, but, like KIERKEGAARD, reacted against the prevalent philosophy of HEGEL. He saw his chief contribution to philosophy as the...

Schopenhauer, Arthur(1788–1860) Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher of pessimism who gave the will a leading place in his metaphysics. He was born in Danzig. His father, a successful businessman of partly Dutch ancestry, was an admirer...

Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer attempted to make his career as an academic by correcting and expanding Immanuel Kant's...

The "major Islamic philosophers," writes Deborah Black, "produced no works dedicated to aesthetics, although their writings do address issues that contemporary philosophers might study under that heading." (1) The aim of this essay is to show how classical Islamic philosophy may be studied...

Alexander Herzen and Arthur Schopenhauer are considered precursors of modern pessimism. However, Herzen refused to be categorized as a pessimist although he forwarded the philosophy of despair, hopelessness and disbelief. For Herzen, adverse consequences can be better understood and accepted when unreal expectations are...

Today is Sunday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2007. There are 22 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 9, 1854, Alfred Lord Tennyson's famous poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published in England.On this date:In 1892, "Widowers' Houses," Bernard...

Mann was a German novelist, short story and novella writer, essayist, and critic who acknowledged a deep indebtedness to Schopenhauer's philosophy. In the following essay, Mann overviews Schopenhauer's metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics and evaluates their historical significance.

One of the most important figures of the nineteenth century, Nietzsche was, among other things, a forerunner of existentialism, the first philosopher to recognize nihilism as a historical phenomenon, and an influential psychological theorist. In the following excerpt, which was originally published in 1874, Nietzsche criticizes his academic contemporaries and insists that the true philosopher is one who, like Schopenhauer, explores "the suffering of truthfulness. "

In the following essay, Gardiner outlines and evaluates Schopenhauer's objections to religion and explores his life to suggest some factors that may have sparked his anti-religious fervor.

Schopenhauer's primacy of the will and the implications that the conjuring of memories has on his premise.