Schopenhauer

Permanent redemption from the suffering of the world is to be found only in the holiness of the ascetic; but to this there are many stages, constituting the generally accepted h...

We have seen that scientific explanation does not go beyond presentations ordered in space and time. This is just as true of the sciences of causation--the 'aetiological' scienc...

A portion of Schopenhauer's system by which its pessimism is considerably mitigated is his theory of the Beautiful and of Fine Art. The characteristic of aesthetic contemplation...

Arthur Schopenhauer may be distinctively described as the greatest philosophic writer of his century. So evident is this that he has sometimes been regarded as having more impor...

The title of Schopenhauer's chief work is rendered in the English translation, _The World as Will and Idea_. Here the term 'idea' is used in the sense it had for Locke and Berke...

Schopenhauer is not one of the philosophers who have founded a school, though he has had many disciples and enthusiastic admirers. The pessimism that was for a time a watchword...