Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer: Encyclopedia Ii - Arthur Schopenhauer - Aesthetics
This wild and powerful drive to reproduce, however, caused suffering and pain in the world. For Schopenhauer, one way to escape the suffe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer: Encyclopedia Ii - Arthur Schopenhauer - Psychology
Schopenhauer was perhaps even more influential in his treatment of man's mind than he was in the realm of philosophy. Philosophers have n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer: Encyclopedia Ii - Arthur Schopenhauer - Life
Schopenhauer was born in Stutthof (Sztutowo) Poland, near Danzig (Gdańsk). He was the son of Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer and Johanna Sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer: Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher. He is most famous for his work The World as Will...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critique Of Pure Reason: Encyclopedia - Critique Of Pure Reason
The Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft), first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, is widely regarded as th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Danto: Encyclopedia - Arthur Danto
Arthur Coleman Danto (b. 1924) is an American art critic, professor and philosopher. Professor Danto has been teaching at Columbia Univer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Will Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Will Philosophy
Will, in philosophy, refers to the conscious mental act that produces physical results. It is one of the most difficult and hotly debated...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Genius: Encyclopedia - Genius
A genius is a person with distinguished mental prowess. This can manifest either as a foremost intellect, or as an outstanding creative t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Idealism: Encyclopedia - Idealism
Idealism is an approach to philosophical enquiry. The ideal, in these systems, relates to direct knowledge of subjective mental ideas, or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Continental Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Continental Philosophy
Continental philosophy is a general term for several related philosophical traditions that (notionally) originated in continental Europe ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 19th-century Philosophy: Encyclopedia - 19th-century Philosophy
In the 18th Century the philosophies of The Enlightenment would begin to have dramatic effect, and the landmark works of philosophers suc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (IPA: [ˈsœːɔn ˈkʰiɔ̯g̊əˌg̊ɔːˀ]), May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855), a 19th century Danish philos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nihilism: Encyclopedia - Nihilism
Nihilism as a philosophical position is the view that the world, and especially human existence, is without meaning, purpose, comprehensi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eastern Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Eastern Philosophy
The usefulness of dividing philosophy into Western philosophy and other philosophies is open to challenge, not the least for speaking dow...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meaning Of Life: Encyclopedia - Meaning Of Life
The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inher...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia - Existentialism
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that views human existence as having a set of underlying themes and characteristics, such as a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rudolf Steiner: Encyclopedia - Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner (February 27, 1861, Murakirály, Hungary (today Donji Kraljevec, Croatia, (Medjimurje county) – March 30, 1925) was an A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jorge Luis Borges: Encyclopedia - Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges ([ˈxɔɾ.xe ˈlwis ˈbɔɾ.xɛs]) (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Genius: Encyclopedia Ii - Genius - In Philosophy
In the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, a genius is a person in whom intellect predominates over will much more than for the average pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critique Of Pure Reason: Encyclopedia Ii - Critique Of Pure Reason - Kant's Rejection Of Hume's Empiricism
Hume's conclusions, Kant realized, rested on the premise that knowledge is empirical at its root. The problem that Hume identified was th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critique Of Pure Reason: Encyclopedia Ii - Critique Of Pure Reason - Kant's Approach
The Critique of Pure Reason is an attempt to answer two questions: "What do we know?" and "How do we know it?". Kant approaches the quest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critique Of Pure Reason: Encyclopedia Ii - Critique Of Pure Reason - Transcendental Aesthetic
Kant separates the mind into two faculties, intuition and understanding. The Transcendental Aesthetic is that part of the CPR that consid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critique Of Pure Reason: Encyclopedia Ii - Critique Of Pure Reason - Transcendental Logic
The Transcendental Logic is that part of the CPR where Kant investigates the understanding and its role in constituting our knowledge. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critique Of Pure Reason: Encyclopedia Ii - Critique Of Pure Reason - Terms
Critique of Pure Reason - Intuition. "Intuition" is "the faculty or power of receiving representations"(see Second Part, Transcendental...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics - Influence
In proposing that art could offer deliverance from the Will, Schopenhauer elevated art from mere artisanry or decoration, and held that a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics - The Schopenhauerian Genius
Schopenhauer believed that while all people were in thrall to the Will, the quality and intensity of their subjection differed. The aesth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The World As Will And Representation: Encyclopedia Ii - The World As Will And Representation - Aesthetics Vol. 1 Book 3
Like many other aesthetic theories, Schopenhauer's centers on the concept of genius. Genius, according to Schopenhauer, is possessed by a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics - An Extension Of His Philosophy
For Schopenhauer, the Will is an aimless desire to perpetuate itself, the mainspring of life. Desire engendered by the Will is the source...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The World As Will And Representation: Encyclopedia Ii - The World As Will And Representation - Relationship To Earlier Philosophical Work
The main body of the work states at the beginning that it assumes prior knowledge of Immanuel Kant's theories, and Schopenhauer is regard...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The World As Will And Representation: Encyclopedia Ii - The World As Will And Representation - Influence
The value of this work is much disputed. Some rank Schopenhauer as one of the most original and inspiring of all philosophers, whilst oth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard On Schopenhauer
Kierkegaard became acquainted with Arthur Schopenhauer's writings quite late in his life. Kierkegaard felt Schopenhauer was an important ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The World As Will And Representation: Encyclopedia Ii - The World As Will And Representation - Ethics Vol. 1 Book 4
Schopenhauer claims in this book to set forth a purely descriptive account of human ethical behavior, in which he identifies two types of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Genius: Encyclopedia Ii - Genius - Etymology
In Ancient Rome, the genius was the guiding or "tutelary" spirit of a person or indeed of an entire gens. A related term is genius loci, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philosophy And Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Philosophy And Literature - The Literature Of Philosophy
Philosophy and literature - Philosophical poems. A number of poets have written poems on philosophical themes, and some important philo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symbolism Arts: Encyclopedia Ii - Symbolism Arts - Precursors And Origins
French Symbolism was in large part a reaction against Naturalism and Realism, movements which attempted to capture reality in its particu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baltasar Gracián Y Morales: Encyclopedia Ii - Baltasar Gracián Y Morales - The Criticón
The three parts of the Criticón, published in 1651, 1653, and 1657, achieved fame in Europe, especially in the German-speaking countries...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Genius: Encyclopedia Ii - Genius - Gifted
Geniuses come gifted with phenomenal brilliance, and are often as insensitive to the limitations of mediocrity as they may be very sensit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baltasar Gracián Y Morales: Encyclopedia Ii - Baltasar Gracián Y Morales - Biography
The son of a doctor, in his childhood Gracián lived with his uncle, who was a priest. He studied at a Jesuit school in Zaragoza from 161...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neo-romanticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Neo-romanticism - In Popular Culture
New Romantic A Gothic-tinged variety of neo-romanticism abounds in modern popular culture, albeit in a rather ersatz or kitsch form often...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symbolism Arts: Encyclopedia Ii - Symbolism Arts - Symbolism As A Movement
Symbolism arts - The Symbolist Manifesto. Symbolists believed that art should aim to capture more absolute truths which could only be a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symbolism Arts: Encyclopedia Ii - Symbolism Arts - Aftermath
In the English speaking world, the closest counterpart to Symbolism was Aestheticism; the Pre-Raphaelites, also, were contemporaries of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philosophy And Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Philosophy And Literature - The Philosophy Of Literature
Strictly speaking, the philosophy of literature is a branch of aesthetics, the branch of philosophy that deals with the question, "what i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symbolism Arts: Encyclopedia Ii - Symbolism Arts - In Other Media
Symbolism arts - Symbolism in the visual arts. Symbolism in literature is distinct from Symbolism in art although the two overlapped on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Genius: Encyclopedia Ii - Genius - Limitations
It has often been noted that geniuses are accused of a lack of common sense. Stories of a genius in a given field being incapable of gras...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nihilism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nihilism - Etymological Origins
The term comes from the Latin nihil, meaning "not anything". The Oxford English Dictionary gives 1817 as its earliest use in English, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard In Contemporary Ethical Theory
Many philosophers who initially read Kierkegaard, especially Fear and Trembling, often come to the conclusion that he supports a divine c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neo-romanticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Neo-romanticism - In Britain
In Britain, 1880-to-1910: Neo-romanticism emerged strongly in the period from about 1880 to about 1910, in Britain. See: Gerard Manley H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Encyclopedia Ii - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Life And Work
Hegel was born in Stuttgart on 27 August 1770. As a child he was a voracious reader of literature, newspapers, philosophical essays, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Basic Philosophical Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Basic Philosophical Topics - Basic Philosophical Concepts
A priori -- A posteriori -- abduction -- absolute -- Aesthetics -- Age of Enlightenment -- Agnosticism -- Altruism -- Ambiguity -- Americ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Encyclopedia Ii - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Life And Work
Hegel was born in Stuttgart on 27 August 1770. As a child he was a voracious reader of literature, newspapers, philosophical essays, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Encyclopedia Ii - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Teachings
Hegel was fascinated by the works of Spinoza, Kant, Rousseau, and Goethe, and by the French Revolution. Modern philosophy, culture, and s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Wagner - Biography
Richard Wagner - Early life. Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 22, 1813. His father, a minor city official, died six ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Wagner - Biography
Richard Wagner - Early life. Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 22, 1813. His father, Friedrich Wagner, who was a mino...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Søren Kierkegaard - Indirect Communication And Pseudonymous Authorship
During Kierkegaard's early authorship, he frequently wrote many of his works under various pseudonyms who represented different ways of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Søren Kierkegaard - Criticisms Of Kierkegaard
Some of Kierkegaard's famous philosophical critics in the 20th century include Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas. Atheistic philosphers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Basic Philosophical Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Basic Philosophical Topics - Philosophical Movements
List of basic philosophical topics - Philosophical movements of the ancient world. Platonic realism Pythagoreanism Pyrrhonian skeptici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Basic Philosophical Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Basic Philosophical Topics - The Isms Doctrines Schools And Principles Of Philosophy
absolutism -- accidentalism -- aestheticism -- agnosticism -- altruism -- anarchism -- animism -- anthropomorphism -- Aristotelianism -- ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Philosophy - Historical Texts
List of publications in philosophy - Western philosophy. Plato, Charmides Plato, Lysis Plato, Laches Plato, Protagoras Plato, Euthyde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Søren Kierkegaard - The Journals Of Søren Kierkegaard
One of the key texts in attempting to understand Kierkegaard and his work is his journals. [3] Kierkegaard wrote over 7000 pages in his j...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard On Schelling
In 1841-1842, Kierkegaard attended the Berlin lectures of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling. Schelling was a critic of Georg Hegel a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard And Christendom
As mentioned in the biography, during the final years of his life, Kierkegaard took up a sustained attack on all of Christendom, Christan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard's Influence
Kierkegaard's works were not widely available in the couple of decades after his death. This is perhaps due to the facts that Kierkegaard...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rudolf Steiner: Encyclopedia Ii - Rudolf Steiner - A Few Aspects Of Steiner's Way Of Thinking
According to Steiner, a real spiritual world exists out of which the material one gradually condensed, so to speak, and evolved. The spir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meaning Of Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Meaning Of Life - Philosophical Views
Meaning of life - Value as meaning. In that they attempt to answer the question "What is valuable in life?", theories of value are theo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nihilism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nihilism - Nihilism In Art
There have been various movements in art, such as surrealism and cubism, which have been criticized for touching on nihilism, and others ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Wagner - Wagner's Influence And Legacy
Wagner's contributions to art and culture are undeniable and monumental. In his lifetime, and for some years after, Wagner inspired fanat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Encyclopedia Ii - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Hegel's Legacy
Some of Hegel's writing was intended for those with advanced knowledge of philosophy, although his "Encyclopedia" was intended as a textb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard On Hegel
One of Kierkegaard's greatest contributions to philosophy is his critique of Georg Hegel. Most of Kierkegaard's earliest works are in res...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Philosophy - Twentieth-century Philosophy
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy [ A ] G.E. Moore, "A Defence of Common Sense" [ A ] Edmund Gettier, "Is Justified True Bel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Søren Kierkegaard - Important Elements Of Kierkegaard's Philosophy
Søren Kierkegaard - Alienation. Alienation is a term applied to a wide variety of phenomena including: any feeling of separation from,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Wagner - Anti-semitism And Nazi Appropriation
During the 20th century, the public perception of Wagner increasingly centered on his anti-semitism, due in large part to an event that o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Wagner - Works
Richard Wagner - Operas. Wagner's operas are his primary artistic legacy. These can be divided chronologically into three periods. Wagn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jorge Luis Borges: Encyclopedia Ii - Jorge Luis Borges - Work
In addition to his short stories for which he is most famous, Borges also wrote poetry, essays, several screenplays, and a considerable v...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Søren Kierkegaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Søren Kierkegaard - Life
Søren Kierkegaard - Early years 1813–1841. Søren Kierkegaard was born to an affluent family in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nihilism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nihilism - Nihilism In Philosophy
Though the term nihilism was first popularized by Ivan Turgenev (see below), it was first introduced into philosophical discourse by Frie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer: Encyclopedia Ii - Arthur Schopenhauer - Philosophy
Schopenhauer's starting point was Kant's division of the universe into phenomenon and noumenon, claiming that the noumenon was the same a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer: Encyclopedia Ii - Arthur Schopenhauer - Schopenhauer On Homosexuality
Schopenhauer was also one of the first philosophers since the days of Greek philosophy to address the subject of male homosexuality. In t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer: Encyclopedia Ii - Arthur Schopenhauer - Bibliography
Arthur Schopenhauer - Major works. Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde, 1813 (On the Fourfold Root of the Pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer: Encyclopedia Ii - Arthur Schopenhauer - Schopenhauer On Women
Schopenhauer is also famous for his essay "On Women" (Über die Weiber), in which he expressed his opposition to what he called "Teutonic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer: Encyclopedia Ii - Arthur Schopenhauer - Common Misconceptions
Many are put off Schopenhauer by descriptions of him as an obstinate and arrogant man, who did not lead the ascetic life that he glorifie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer: Encyclopedia Ii - Arthur Schopenhauer - Schopenhauer On Hegel
Schopenhauer seems to have disliked just about everything concerning his contemporary Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. The following quotat...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Viii - A
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages VIII - A . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word....   » Read the article