Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (born 1788)

Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher (1788–1860)

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant,…