Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arthur Schopenhauer and a person pointing to their temple. “[Schopenhauer] basically argued that the more intelligent somebody is ...

Source: Wikimedia commons, public domain. Whereas Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel could count as optimists, Schopenhauer is the first (and last) thinker in all Western philosophy to have constructed a ...

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a German philosopher, best known for his book, “The World as Will and Representation”. He was among the first thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition to ...

We invite submissions for an international conference on the philosophy of science and the ethics of science from both historical and systematic perspectives. The conference is centered on the ...

Arthur Schopenhauer is a philosopher who’s never been much liked by other philosophers. Bertrand Russell described his system as “tired and valetudinarian” and too averse to reform. Ludwig ...

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is famous for his 19th-century contributions to the canon of Western thought, which include explorations on reason, free will, ethics, and quite a bit more. But ...

In today’s society, being happy and having an optimistic attitude are social expectations that weigh heavily on how we live and the choices we make. Some psychologists have pointed out how happiness ...