Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer 22 February 1788-21 September 1860 was a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and IdeaGerman: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, in which he claimed that our world is driven by a continually dissatisfied will, continually seeking satisfaction. Independently arriving at many of the same conclusions of 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 ofexperience 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 Schrdinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others.
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CONTENTS
Appendix 1
Supplements to the First Book 163
FIRST HALF
CHAPTER 1 167
CHAPTER 2 189
CHAPTER 3 199
CHAPTER 4 207
SECOND HALF
CHAPTER 5 241
CHAPTER 6 247
CHAPTER 7 258
CHAPTER 8 285
2THE WORLD AS WILL AND IDEA
CHAPTER 9 301
CHAPTER 10 308
CHAPTER 11 322
CHAPTER 12 324
CHAPTER 13 338
CHAPTER 14 342
CHAPTER 15 348
CHAPTER 16 363
CHAPTER 17 378
Supplements to the Second Book 417
CHAPTER 18 419
CHAPTER 19 432
CHAPTER 20 491
NOTE ON WHAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT BICHAT 518
FOOTNOTES 522