Arthur Schopenhauer
Student Edition
The World as Will and Idea
Edited by: Dr. Kay Picart and Brett Ader
Biography
• 1. 1788 – 1860
• 2. Native of Danzig,
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Poland.
3. Parents – Heinrich, a
member of the mercantile
aristocracy and Johanna,
a well respected author.
4. 1809 – Began studying
at the University of
Gottingen where he was
first exposed to the works
of Plato and Kant
Eastern Influences
• Inspired by F. Mayer, an Orientalist, to
study the philosophies of ancient India
• Language and Wisdom of the Old Hindus
by Friedrich Schlegel
• Persian and Sanskrit verse
What is individual will?
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Questions
• In what areas do you
think Khayyam and
Schopenhauer are
similar?
• And in what areas do
they differ?
Major Principle of Schopenhauer
Every man takes the limits of his
own field of vision for the limits
of the world.
Truth
• All truth passes
through three stages.
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What is reality according to
Schopenhauer?
Reactions to Kant
• Schopenhauer divides all Kantian
cognitive forms into three forms
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How would you define the
beautiful and the sublime, and
what characteristics make them
unique to one another?
What were Schopenhauer’s views
on art and science?
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What is Platonism?
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Other Works by Schopenhauer
• On the Will in Nature
1836
• The Basis of Morality
1841
• Essays from the
Parerga and
Paralipomena 1851