Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher. He is most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation. He is commonly known for having espoused a sort of philosophical pessimism that saw life as being essentially evil, futile, and full of suffering. However, upon closer inspection, in accordance with Eastern thought, especially Buddhist, he saw salvation, deliverance, or escape from suffering in aesthetic contemplation, sympathy for others, and ascetic living. His ideas profoundly influenced the fields of philosophy, psychology, and literature.

Bibliography

Major works

• Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde, 1813 (On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason)
• Über das Sehn und die Farben, 1816 (On Vision and Colours)
• Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, 1818/1819, vol 2 1844 (The World as Will and Idea)
• Über den Willen in der Natur, 1836 (On the Will in Nature)
• Über die Freiheit des menschlichen Willens, 1839 (On Freedom of the Will)
• Über die Grundlage der Moral, 1840 (On the Basis of Morality)
• Parerga und Paralipomena, 1851

Online texts

• Über Religion, from Parerga und Paralipomena II (german)
• Influence on Friesian philosophy
• Essay Über die Weiber
• Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten - The Art Of Controversy (bilingual)
• Works by Schopenhauer from Project Gutenberg