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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a German philosopher, widely known as the “philosopher of pessimism.” His 1818 work The World as Will and Representation proposed that a blind, irrational will underlies all reality. Drawing on Kant, Buddhism, and Platonism, Schopenhauer profoundly influenced existentialism, psychology, literature, and the arts.