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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), wherein he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable metaphysical will. Proceeding from the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism, rejecting the contemporaneous post-Kantian philosophies of German idealism. Schopenhauer was among the first thinkers in Western philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Eastern philosophy (e.g., asceticism, the world-as-appearance), having initially arrived at similar conclusions as the result of his own philosophical work.
Though his work failed to garner substantial attention during his life, Schopenhauer has had a posthumous impact across various disciplines, including philosophy, literature, and science. His writing on aesthetics, morality, and psychology would exert an important influence on thinkers and artists throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Those who have cited his influence include Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Leo Tolstoy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Otto Rank, Gustav Mahler, Joseph Campbell, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Thomas Mann, Émile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, Jorge Luis Borges and Samuel Beckett.
Engraver: Hans Joachim Dobler
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Depicts Federal Eagle in the centre, surrounded by the country name, issue date, Bavarian Central Mint (D) mark and facial value. • BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND • |
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Depicts a Portrait of Arthur Schopenhauer. His name and dates of his birth and death are below. 1788-1860 ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER |
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The World as Will and Representation (German: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung) is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. DIE WELT ALS WILLE UND VORSTELLUNG |
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200th Anniversary of Birth of Arthur Schopenhauer
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200th Anniversary of Birth of Arthur Schopenhauer