Arthur Schopenhauer Student Edition The World as Will and Idea Edited by: Dr. Kay Picart and Brett Ader
Biography 1. 1788 – 1860 2. Native of Danzig, Poland. 3. Parents – Heinrich, a member of the mercantile aristocracy and Johanna, a well respected author. 4. 1809 – Began studying at the University of Gottingen where he was first exposed to the works of Plato and Kant
Eastern Influences Inspired by F. Mayer, an Orientalist, to study the philosophies of ancient India Language and Wisdom of the Old Hindus by Friedrich Schlegel Persian and Sanskrit verse
What is individual will? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hhkljh
Questions In what areas do you think Khayyam and Schopenhauer are similar? And in what areas do they differ?
Major Principle of Schopenhauer Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Truth All truth passes through three stages. ____________________________________
What is reality according to Schopenhauer?
Reactions to Kant Schopenhauer divides all Kantian cognitive forms into three forms _________
How would you define the beautiful and the sublime, and what characteristics make them unique to one another?
What were Schopenhauer’s views on art and science?
What is Platonism? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Other Works by Schopenhauer On the Will in Nature 1836 The Basis of Morality 1841 Essays from the Parerga and Paralipomena 1851