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Arthur Schopenhauer
Portrait after frontispiece engraving in: Volkelt, J 1900. Arthur Schopenhauer. Seine Personlichkeit, seine Lehre, sein Glaube. Stuttgart: Frommanns.
Schopenhauer's writing is replete with oppositional pairs like life and death, pleasure and pain, love and hate, and his portrait has been transfigured to display this conflict between positive and negative aspects of human endeavor. - Page 39
Schopenhauer's writing is replete with oppositional pairs like life and death, pleasure and pain, love and hate, and his portrait has been transfigured to display this conflict between positive and negative aspects of human endeavor. - Page 39
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Schopenhauer was influenced by both Goethe and Kant, accepting some of their concepts and rejecting others; he was also inspired by Eastern philosophy. He followed Goethe in developing a theory of color vision. With Kant he accepted that reality (the-thing-in-itself) in unknowable, but it consisted of an all-pervading will, of which individual wills are constituent parts. The motive force for the individual will is struggle to survive. Rather than being under the control of the intellect, rational thought is subservient to the will, which is driven by irrational forces. Life is considered to be a succession of blind impulses, like hunger and sexual desire, that are temporarily satisfied, only to return. Pleasure, the satisfaction of an impulse, is transitory: "No attained object of desire can give lasting satisfaction, but merely a fleeting gratification." Understanding the power of the will only amplifies the suffering it imposes. The dire state of affairs can best be ameliorated by immersion in some activity that is not driven by the will, like art. The power of sexual desire can be reduced, he argued, byu leading an ascetic life. ~ Page 39
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