PhilosophersArthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life swings between suffering and boredom.
Philosophical pessimism1788 – 1860 GermanyPessimistMetaphysician of the willCritical heir of KantAtheist
Inspirations
Kant the world as appearance, the thing in itself
Platon the Ideas, which art reveals
Les Upanishads et le bouddhisme"This art thou", suffering, renunciation
Hume against optimism and natural theology
Leibniz against the "best of all possible worlds"
criticHegel his great rival, whom he despises
criticHeirs
Nietzsche his "educator", then his target
Richard WagnerTristan and Isolde
Sigmund Freudunconscious drives
Ludwig Wittgenstein the world as my representation
Albert Einstein"one cannot will what one wills"
Similar and opposite philosophers
how it is computedClosest
Michael Martin The arguments for God's existence fail, and there are good reasons not to believe.
100 %J. M. E. McTaggart He argues that time is not real: past, present and future contradict each other, and without them there is no change.
86 %Thomas Nagel Consciousness is a subjective point of view that physics does not describe: our idea of nature must be widened.
84 %Sigmund Freud Religion is an illusion born of the wish to be protected, as a child by its father.
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