Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was wealthy, well-travelled, and free from the demands of a job. Why, then, did he see life as a restless chase after desires that can never satisfy?

In this study, Thomas Whittaker traces Schopenhauer’s life from late eighteenth-century Danzig to the universities where he shaped his philosophy. The young thinker prized pure truth, yet his deepest question was why existence held so much evil and suffering. His answer drew on both European philosophy and the religions of the East, and he called its promise a kind of redemption. But when his great work first appeared, it seemed to have fallen “deadborn from the press.” How did a philosophy so sure of its truth come to find its readers?

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