Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer 🇵🇱

Arthur Schopenhauer (Known as "The Philosopher of the Will")
German Philosopher, Metaphysician, Pioneer of Philosophical Pessimism
Born 22 February 1788 🇵🇱 Danzig (Gdańsk), Poland
Passed Away 21 September 1860 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Lifespan 72 years old
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"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."

Archival Overview

German philosopher whose masterpiece The World as Will and Representation combined Kantian critique with Indian Upanishadic thought, depicting the cosmos driven by an insatiable Will.

Biographical Record

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), born in Danzig to an affluent merchant family, spent decades in independent philosophical solitude in Frankfurt accompanied by his poodle Atma. He boldly challenged the academic establishment of Hegel, creating an exquisite prose style that influenced Wagner, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, and Freud.

His magnum opus, The World as Will and Representation (1818), posited that behind the phenomenal world lies a single, blind, striving metaphysical force: the Will (*Wille*). Suffering is the inevitable result of endless desiring, which can be transcended only through aesthetic contemplation (especially music) and self-denying compassion (*Mitleid*).

Key Life Milestones

1818 CE

Publication of 'The World as Will and Representation'

Penned his masterpiece synthesizing Kantian epistemology, Platonic Ideas, and Vedic-Buddhist compassion.

1851 CE

Publication of 'Parerga and Paralipomena'

Released his brilliant essays and aphorisms, finally bringing him late-life international celebrity.

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Final Resting Place

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Frankfurt Main Cemetery (Hauptfriedhof)
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
GPS: 50.1344, 8.6853
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