The New Student's Reference Work/Schopenhauer, Arthur

Schopenhauer (shō′pĕn-hou′ẽr), Arthur, a German philosopher, was born at Dantzic, Prussia, Feb. 22, 1788. He studied at Göttingen, Berlin and Jena, hearing Fichte and Schleiermacher. From Weimar, where his mother resided, he went in 1814 to Dresden and from there to Italy, afterwards living at Berlin and Frankfort-on-the-Main. His chief book, The World as Will and Idea, gives a large part of his peculiar philosophy. On the Will in Nature and Sight and Colors are among his philosophical writings, which include many occasional papers and his prize-essay in the Norwegian Academy on Freedom of the Will, which brought him the first public praise. He died on Sept. 21, 1860. See Lives by Zimmerman and Wallace.