Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer (German: [ˈaʁtʊʁ ˈʃɔpənˌhaʊ̯ɐ]; 22 Februar 1788 – 21 September 1860) wis a German philosopher. He is best kent for his 1818 wark The Warld as Will an Representation (wauxt in 1844), whaurin he chairacterises the phenomenal warld as the product o a blinnd an stainchless metapheesical will.[2][3] Proceedin frae the transcendental idealism o Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developit an atheistic metapheesical an ethical seestem that haes been descrived as an exemplar kythin o philosophical pessimism,[4][5][6] rejectin the contemporaneous post-Kantian philosophies o German idealism.[7][8] Schopenhauer wis amang the first thinkers in Wastren philosophie tae skare an affirm signeeficant tenets o Eastren philosophie (e.g., asceticism, the warld-as-appearance), haein ineetially arrived at seemilar conclusions as the eftercast o his ain philosophical wark.[9][10]
Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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Schopenhauer, 1855. | |
Born | 22 Februar 1788(1788-02-22) Danzig (Gdańsk) |
Dee'd | 21 September 1860(1860-09-21) (aged 72) Frankfurt, German Confederation |
Residence | Danzig, Hamburg an finally German Confederation |
Naitionality | German |
Era | 19t-century philosophie |
Region | Wastren philosophie |
Schuil | Post-Kantian philosophie |
Main interests | Metapheesics, aesthetics, ethics, phenomenology, morality, psychology |
Notable ideas | Will, Fowerfauld ruit o raison, Hedgehog's dilemma, philosophical pessimism |
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Tho his wark failed tae get substantious attention in his ain life, Schopenhauer haes haed a posthumous impact athort various discipleenes, includin philosophie, leeteratur, an science. His writin on aesthetics, morality, an psychology influenced thinkers an airtists ootthrou the 19t an 20t centuries. Thaim that citit his influence includes Friedrich Nietzsche,[11] Richard Wagner, Leo Tolstoy, Ludwig Wittgenstein,[12] Erwin Schrödinger, Otto Rank, Gustav Mahler, Joseph Campbell, Albert Einstein,[13] Anthony Ludovici,[14] Carl Jung, Thomas Mann, Émile Zola, George Bernard Shaw,[15] Jorge Luis Borges an Samuel Beckett.[16]