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About Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation (German: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung), in which he claimed that our world is driven by a continually dissatisfied will, continually seeking satisfaction. Influenced by Eastern philosophy, he maintained that the "truth was recognized by the sages of India"; consequently, his solutions to suffering were similar to those of Vedantic and Buddhist thinkers (e.g., asceticism). The influence of "transcendental ideality" led him to choose atheism.
At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four distinct aspects of experience in the phenomenal world; consequently, he has been influential in the history of phenomenology. He has influenced many thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others.
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BIOGRAPHY 'The more I see of men the less I like them; if I could but say so of women too, all would be well.' Arthur Schopenhauer was born on 22 February 1788 in Danzig (now Gdansk) and died on 21 September 1860 in Frankfurt am Main. He never married, but had an affaire (between 1821 and 1831) with - and possibly an illegitimate son by - the opera singer Caroline Richter (also named Caroline Medon). Though often pejoratively nicknamed 'the philosopher of pessimism', he was in fact a philosopher of genius in the tradition of Locke, Hume and Kant. Ludwig Wittgenstein's famous _Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus__consists mostly of reflections on the thoughts of Schopenhauer. See also Bryan Magee's books _Confessions of a Philosopher (1997)_ and _The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (1983, rev. ed.1997)._ (Jos Ykema)
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Arthur Schopenhauer's Timeline
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February 22, 1788
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Danzig | Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Germany now Poland
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| 1860 |
September 21, 1860
Age 72
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Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
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September 1860
Age 72
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Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
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