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PHILOSOPHER

Arthur Schopenhauer

1788 - 1860

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Arthur Schopenhauer ( SHOH-pən-how-ər, German: [ˈaɐtʊɐ ˈʃoːpm̩haʊɐ] (listen); 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Schopenhauer has received more than 5,111,255 page views. His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Arthur Schopenhauer is the 22nd most popular philosopher (down from 19th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Poland and the most popular Polish Philosopher.

Arthur Schopenhauer is most famous for his philosophical work, The World as Will and Representation. He argues that the world is governed by the Will, which he defines as an irrational and insatiable force.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Arthur Schopenhauer ranks 22 out of 1,081. Before him are Thales of Miletus, Thomas Aquinas, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Montesquieu, Thomas Hobbes, and Democritus. After him are Epicurus, Seneca the Younger, Erasmus, Auguste Comte, Friedrich Engels, and Averroes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Arthur Schopenhauer ranks 1. After him are Lord Byron, Sarah Baartman, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Robert Peel, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, and Archduke Rudolf of Austria. Among people deceased in 1860, Arthur Schopenhauer ranks 1. After him are Phineas Gage, Désirée Clary, Jérôme Bonaparte, Alexandra Feodorovna, Charles Goodyear, János Bolyai, Miloš Obrenović, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, William Walker, and István Széchenyi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Arthur Schopenhauer ranks 5 out of 1,454. Before him are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Marie Curie (1867), Frédéric Chopin (1810), and Pope John Paul II (1920). After him are Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Fritz Haber (1868).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Arthur Schopenhauer ranks 1. After him are Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Christian Wolff (1679), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Jakob Böhme (1575), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Paul Tillich (1886), Heinrich Rickert (1863), and Leszek Kołakowski (1927).

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