1. Arthur Schopenhauer Student Edition
The World as Will and Idea
Edited by: Dr. Kay Picart and Brett Ader

2. Biography 1. 1788 – 1860 2. Native of Danzig, Poland.
3. Parents – Heinrich, a member of the mercantile aristocracy and Johanna, a well respected author.
– Began studying at the University of Gottingen where he was first exposed to the works of Plato and Kant

3. 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

4. What is individual will?
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5. Questions
In what areas do you think Khayyam and Schopenhauer are similar?
And in what areas do they differ?

6. Major Principle of Schopenhauer
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

7. Truth All truth passes through three stages.
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8. What is reality according to Schopenhauer?

9. Reactions to Kant
Schopenhauer divides all Kantian cognitive forms into three forms
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10. How would you define the beautiful and the sublime, and what characteristics make them unique to one another?

11. What were Schopenhauer’s views on art and science?

12. What is Platonism?
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13. Other Works by Schopenhauer
On the Will in Nature 1836
The Basis of Morality 1841
Essays from the Parerga and Paralipomena 1851