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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Label	Occurrences
Arthur Schopenhauer canonical	48
Schopenhauer	1
Schopenhauerianism	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ metaphysician ⓘ 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 ⓘ
ethnicGroup	German ⓘ
familyName	Arthur Schopenhauer self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Schopenhauer
fieldOfWork	aesthetics ⓘ 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 self-linksurface differs ⓘ 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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Immanuel Kant → influenced → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Humboldt University of Berlin → hasNotableAlumni → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Thomas Mann → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Ludwig Wittgenstein → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Friedrich Nietzsche → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

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thing-in-itself (noumenon) → criticizedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

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transcendental idealism → criticizedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

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Arthur Schopenhauer → philosophicalSchool → Arthur Schopenhauer self-linksurface differs ⓘ

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Otto Rank → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

George Berkeley → influenced → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Jules Laforgue → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Jorge Luis Borges → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

University of Basel → hasNotableAlumnus → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

The Birth of Tragedy → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

The Antichrist → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

The World as Will and Representation → author → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason → author → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

On the Will in Nature → author → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

On the Will in Nature → workOfPhilosopher → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Parerga and Paralipomena → author → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

On the Freedom of the Will → author → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Emil Cioran → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Ding an sich → influenced → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Ding an sich → debatedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

On the Basis of Morality → author → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

On the Basis of Morality → associatedPhilosopher → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Truth and Reality → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Herman Hesse → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

subject surface form: Hermann Hesse

Theory of Colours → influenced → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Lebensphilosophie → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Hegelian dialectics → critiquedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Giorgio de Chirico → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Ferdinand Tönnies → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

A Short History of Modern Philosophy → coversPhilosopher → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Nietzschean philosophy → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

The Case of Wagner → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Maxims and Arrows → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Ernst Jünger → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Friedrich Nietzsche’s earlier work ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ → influencedBy → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

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Attempt at a Self-Criticism → distancesFrom → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Critique of Judgment → influencedPhilosopher → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

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Parerga → author → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

Paralipomena → author → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ

On the Suffering of the World → author → Arthur Schopenhauer ⓘ