Arthur Schopenhauer
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Schopenhauer
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Philosopher described as adapting and opposing Kant, called an 'Apostle of Protest.'
When Schopenhauer began to write, he declared himself a true disciple of Kant, but he modifies and adapts Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” to such an extent that he reaches the attitude of opposition.
The Second Section of the Library (ten volumes) is devoted to the presentation of Government, Philosophy, Law and Ethics.
History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
German philosopher associated with pessimism and will-philosophy; subject of part of Chapter XIV.
The aesthetic view of the world held by the Greeks, the transcendental-religious view of Christianity, the intellectual view of Leibnitz and Hegel, the panthelistic views of Fichte I and Schopenhauer are vital forces, not doctrines, postulates, not results of thought.
even the ethelistic philosophers, Fichte and Schopenhauer, pay their tribute to the prejudice in favor of intellectualism.
According to the law of contradiction and reconciliation, a Schopenhauer must have followed directly after Leibnitz, to oppose his pessimistic ethelism to the optimistic intellectualism of the latter;