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- Author
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- First published
- 1851
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA, Iwanami Shoten, Allen and Unwin
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- German, French, Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9783251011254
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“DESCARTES is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains in place whereof the Bible, on the hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.”
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher known for his atheistic pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, *On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason*, which examined the fundamental question of whether reason alone can unlock answers about the world. Schopenhauer's most influential work, *The World as Will and Representation*, emphasized the role of man's basic motivation, which Schopenhauer called will. His analysis of will led him to the conclusion that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fulfilled. Consequently, he favored a lifestyle of negating human desires, similar to the teachings of ancient Greek St
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