The world is as a will and a performance. Schopenhauer A.

Arthur Schopenhauer is a German philosopher, one of the main representatives of philosophical irrationalism, due to sharp judgments, received the nickname “The philosopher of pessimism”. His philosophy and unusual views on human nature, a metaphysical analysis of the will, the aphoristic style of writing had a huge impact on Z. Freud, F. Nietzsche, A. Einstein, K. Jung, L. Tolstoy, L.Kh. Borges and many others. What is the “will to life” and “representation” of the world; Why life is a tragedy, but in its details it resembles a comedy; What gives a person knowledge; How he gets acquainted through his body with the surrounding reality and how he solves his genius; What is love and why a woman acts as the main culprit of evil...

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