Arthur Schopenhauer Student Edition

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Arthur SchopenhauerStudent Edition

• The World as Will and Idea
• Edited by Dr. Kay Picart and Brett Ader

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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

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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

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What is individual will?

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Questions

• In what areas do you think Khayyam and
  Schopenhauer are similar?
• And in what areas do they differ?

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Major Principle of Schopenhauer

• Every man takes the limits of his own field of
  vision for the limits of the world.

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Truth

• All truth passes through three stages.
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What is reality according to Schopenhauer?

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Reactions to Kant

• Schopenhauer divides all Kantian cognitive forms
  into three forms
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How would you define the beautiful and the
sublime, and what characteristics make them
unique to one another?
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What were Schopenhauers views on art and science?

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What is Platonism?

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Other Works by Schopenhauer

• On the Will in Nature 1836
• The Basis of Morality 1841
• Essays from the Parerga and Paralipomena 1851