On the Suffering of the World (Penguin Great Ideas)

Schopenhauer's perception of the importance of art morality and self awareness in a blind struggle against a Godless meaningless world radically transformed our understanding of the individual and remains a searing vision of the human condition.|Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Danzig in 1788. He went on to study medicine and science at Gottingen University and in 1810 began to study philosophy. In 1811 he transferred to Berlin to write his doctoral thesis and began to write The World as Will and...See More