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Vor 5 Tagen · By Tim Brinkhof. May 23, 2024. In a particularly harrowing passage from his 1819 discourse The World as Will and Representation, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer cites an account from one of botanist and geologist Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s expeditions to the Indonesian island of Java.
Vor 4 Tagen · Schopenhauer stated, “We direct our attention to mathematics, natural science, and philosophy, for each of these holds out the hope that it will afford us a part of the explanation we desire.” This quote from Schopenhauer explains one of the main reasons why I walk. Walking is an experience that I choose to do, and it helps me see New York the way it’s represented, unlike walking at a ...
Vor 2 Tagen · One such reaction to the loss of meaning is what Nietzsche called passive nihilism, which he recognised in the pessimistic philosophy of Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer's doctrine—which Nietzsche also referred to as Western Buddhism —advocates separating oneself from will and desires to reduce suffering.
Vor 3 Tagen · Philosophy of Nature: 1819–20, 1821–22, 1823–24, 1825–26, 1828, 1830; Philosophy of Subjective Spirit: 1820, 1822, 1825, 1827–28, 1829–30; Philosophy of Right: 1818–19, 1819–20, 1821–22, 1822–23, 1824–25, 1831; Philosophy of World History: 1822–23, 1824–25, 1826–27, 1828–29, 1830–31
Vor 5 Tagen · Published six years before his important This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity (1774), and just before his three-year-long wrestling with Shakespeare’s drama, the eulogy is a key contribution to Herder’s hermeneutic theory, and, all the same, an exercise in interpretation. Herder’s willingness to develop his hermeneutic theory through his exercises in ...
Vor 2 Tagen · René Descartes ( / deɪˈkɑːrt / day-KART or UK: / ˈdeɪkɑːrt / DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; [note 3] [11] 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) [12] [13] [14] : 58 was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Though describing him somewhere as a "brother genius" (the other brother being Schopenhauer) I am inclined to think he had only cursorily dipped into Hegel much preferring Kant. And it is Kant's philosophy that we see peering through the shades of The Birth of Tragedy time and again, particularly the importance Kant grants to the "thing in itself" and the limitation such a concept imposes on ...
