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![]() ![]() ![]() Schopenhauer had tried and failed to establish a lecturing career for himself in Berlin. This two-volume work is the central standard work on which his reputation chiefly rests. A second edition appeared in 1844 with some revisions and a new second volume of explanatory essays. In 1819 after a short but intense period of writing and synthesis of various sources (chiefly Kant, Plato, and the Upanishads) Schopenhauer produced the major work of his life, The World as Will and Representation. His first philosophical work, published in 1814, was a doctoral dissertation entitled On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, an original analysis of different forms of explanation that he continued to regard as integral to his philosophy. Though originally destined for a career in business, Schopenhauer struck out on his own in 1809 and attended university in Göttingen and Berlin. ![]() Schopenhauer was born in Danzig, the son of a wealthy merchant of cosmopolitan outlook and a mother who was to make her career as a popular novelist and patron of the arts. His works became influential on European philosophers, artists, and other intellectuals in the latter half of the nineteenth century. SCHOPENHAUER, ARTHUR (1788–1860), German philosopher.Īrthur Schopenhauer produced a system of metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics centered around the notion of the will. Ethics, aesthetics, and the meaning of life ![]()
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