Admonition and Proverbs

Author: Schopenhauer
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: Schopenhauer extensively draws from a wide range of concepts popular in Western tradition to describe the scenes and stages of life. Thus, concepts like Plato's Forms and Kant's noumenon are incorporated, revealing many mysteries of life that classical philosophers hesitated to speak of, or remained silent about, or spoke of ambiguously. Here, solipsism, pessimism, willism, and nihilism are skillfully blended to form a rich and thought-provoking philosophy of life. As a result, eccentric thinkers like Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, and Dostoevsky became his followers, and some even took up the study of German just to grasp the essence of Schopenhauer's original works.