PHILOSOPHER

Arthur Schopenhauer

1788 - 1860

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Arthur Schopenhauer ( SHOH-pən-how-ər; German: [ˈaʁtuːɐ̯ ˈʃoːpn̩haʊɐ] ; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism. Schopenhauer was among the first philosophers in the Western tradition to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy, such as asceticism, denial of the self, and the notion of the world-as-appearance. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 105 in 2024). Arthur Schopenhauer is the 24th most popular philosopher (down from 20th in 2024), the 5th most popular biography from Poland and the most popular Polish Philosopher.

Arthur Schopenhauer is most famous for his philosophical work, The World as Will and Representation. He argues that the world is governed by the Will, which he defines as an irrational and insatiable force.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Arthur Schopenhauer ranks 24 out of 1,267. Before him are Heraclitus, Thomas Aquinas, Diogenes, Erasmus, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and John Locke. After him are Montesquieu, Democritus, Seneca the Younger, Epicurus, Averroes, and Al-Ghazali.

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Among people born in 1788, Arthur Schopenhauer ranks 1. After him are Lord Byron, Sarah Baartman, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Ranavalona I, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Étienne Cabet, and Antoine César Becquerel. Among people deceased in 1860, Arthur Schopenhauer ranks 1. After him are Phineas Gage, Désirée Clary, Jérôme Bonaparte, János Bolyai, Alexandra Feodorovna, Charles Goodyear, Miloš Obrenović, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, István Széchenyi, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, and Lady Byron.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Arthur Schopenhauer ranks 5 out of 1,694. Before him are Marie Curie (1867), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Pope John Paul II (1920), and Frédéric Chopin (1810). After him are Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Paul von Hindenburg (1847).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Arthur Schopenhauer ranks 1. After him are Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Jakob Böhme (1575), Christian Wolff (1679), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Heinrich Rickert (1863), and Paul Tillich (1886).

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