Arthur Schopenhauer, the renowned and eccentric writer whose works on the human will revolutionized modern philosophy was last seen in one of the Taunus mountain resorts up above Frankfurt sometime ...

Despite reflecting on the good life for more than 2,500 years, philosophers have not had much to say about middle age. For me, approaching 40 was a time of stereotypical crisis. Having jumped the ...

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 ...

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, unfortunately, didn’t have much to offer us in his consolations about death, but, more importantly, he succeeded in helping us believe that life was worth living, even ...

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 ...

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 ...

How do you write a book?” Like most authors, I get this question often. Sometimes, I find that the person is asking about overcoming specific obstacles, such as getting started (answer: first spend ...