Arthur Schopenhauer

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human metaphysician philosopher writer

Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his pessimistic worldview and his major work "The World as Will and Representation," which profoundly influenced later existentialist and psychoanalytic thought.

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philosopher →
writer →
burialPlace Frankfurt am Main →
countryOfCitizenship Prussia →
surface form: "Kingdom of Prussia"
dateOfBirth 1788-02-22 →
dateOfDeath 1860-09-21 →
educatedAt Humboldt University of Berlin →
surface form: "University of Berlin"

University of Göttingen →
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familyName Arthur Schopenhauer →
surface form: "Schopenhauer"
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epistemology →
ethics →
metaphysics →
philosophy of religion →
givenName Arthur →
hasPhilosophicalConcept principle of sufficient reason →
representation (Vorstellung) →
thing-in-itself (noumenon) →
surface form: "will (as thing-in-itself)"
influenced Albert Einstein →
Emil Cioran →
Friedrich Nietzsche →
Jorge Luis Borges →
Ludwig Wittgenstein →
Richard Wagner →
Sigmund Freud →
Thomas Mann →
influencedBy Baruch Spinoza →
Buddhism →
Hindu philosophy →
Immanuel Kant →
Plato →
Upanishads →
languageOfWorkOrName German →
mainInterest art and aesthetics →
asceticism →
ethics of compassion →
suffering →
the will →
movement German idealism (critical opponent) →
pessimism →
transcendental idealism →
notableIdea compassion as basis of morality →
denial of the will →
pessimistic assessment of life →
primacy of the will over intellect →
The World as Will and Representation →
surface form: "world as will and representation"
notableWork On the Basis of Morality →
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason →
On the Freedom of the Will →
On the Will in Nature →
Parerga and Paralipomena →
The World as Will and Representation →
occupation university lecturer →
philosophicalSchool Arthur Schopenhauer →
surface form: "Schopenhauerianism"
placeOfBirth Gdańsk →
surface form: "Danzig"

Free City of Danzig →
placeOfDeath Frankfurt am Main →
German Confederation →
religiousView atheism (often interpreted) →
residence Frankfurt am Main →
sexOrGender male →
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On the Freedom of the Will → author → Arthur Schopenhauer →
On the Will in Nature → author → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Parerga and Paralipomena → author → Arthur Schopenhauer →
The World as Will and Representation → author → Arthur Schopenhauer →
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Ding an sich → debatedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Arthur Schopenhauer → familyName → Arthur Schopenhauer →
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Humboldt University of Berlin → hasNotableAlumni → Arthur Schopenhauer →
University of Basel → hasNotableAlumnus → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Ding an sich → influenced → Arthur Schopenhauer →
George Berkeley → influenced → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Immanuel Kant → influenced → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Emil Cioran → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Friedrich Nietzsche → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Jorge Luis Borges → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Jules Laforgue → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Ludwig Wittgenstein → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Otto Rank → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer →
The Antichrist → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer →
The Birth of Tragedy → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Thomas Mann → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer →
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer →
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On the Will in Nature → workOfPhilosopher → Arthur Schopenhauer →
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