# Arthur Schopenhauer

> He argued that reality is the thrashing of a blind, irrational will - and that recognizing this truth leads straight to pessimism. Schopenhauer's 1818 system broke with German idealism, drew on Indian philosophy, and spent most of his life ignored before it reshaped aesthetics, ethics, and how the West thought about suffering.

*German philosopher (1788-1860)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** 1788-02-22
- **Died:** 1860-09-21
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Building on Kant's transcendental idealism, he proposed an atheistic metaphysics: the phenomenal world is the manifestation of a blind, irrational noumenal will. He rejected the German idealism dominant around him and became one of the first Western philosophers to affirm tenets of Indian philosophy - asceticism, denial of the self, the world-as-appearance. His work exemplified philosophical pessimism. It drew little attention while he lived, but after his death on 21 September 1860 it spread across philosophy, literature, and science, influencing thinkers and artists through its writing on aesthetics, morality, and psychology.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Philosophy, #Literature, #19th Century

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