Up@dawn 2.0 (blogger)

Delight Springs

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Schopenhauer

It's the birthday of philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, born in Danzig, Prussia—now Gdansk, Poland (1788). He was a rival of Hegel's, and wrote works refuting Hegel's philosophy. Schopenhauer believed that we live in a world of continual strife and that the "will," our inner nature, inevitably leads to pain and suffering unless we are able to renounce desire and assume an attitude of resignation. He was a great influence on the literature of Thomas Mann, the music of Richard Wagner, and the psychology of Sigmund Freud. WA

No comments:

Post a Comment