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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

By Arthur Schopenhauer

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Explore a philosopher's dark, 19th century, perspective on life and the human condition through collected essays about will, desire, suffering, morality, and more.

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"Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Arthur Schopenhauer" by Arthur Schopenhauer, is a collection of writings from the 1800s focusing on philosophy, ethics, human nature, and literature. The book compiles essays and treatises that do not follow a single plot but instead explore various philosophical concepts, including metaphysics, and existential questions. "The Art of Literature," "Studies in Pessimism," "The Wisdom of Life," and "The World as Will and Idea" guide readers through the philosophical thoughts of Schopenhauer, marked by pessimism about life and will. These writings offer insights into the human experience, reality, and the meaning of will and desire, challenging readers to think about morality, suffering, and the connection between people and their world through a pessimistic point of view.

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Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism.

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