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 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 ...

THE name of Schopenhauer is better known to most general readers in our day than is that of any other modern Continental metaphysician since Kant. The reputed heretic has the reward of his dangerous ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Nietzsche and Wagner paid similar homage to Schopenhauer. The young Nietzsche, in Schopenhauer as Educator, the ...

Although outside the realm of academic philosophy, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was nevertheless one of the most important philosophers of the 19th century, best known for his eastern influence and ...

Arthur Schopenhauer—the 19 th century German philosopher for whom human existence was a perpetually swinging “pendulum between suffering and boredom,” and the world itself a hell in which “human ...

After a whirlwind July filled with personal highs and lows, Utkarsh Amitabh reflects on Schopenhauer's philosophy, discovering that true happiness may lie in reconciling with the imperfections of life ...