About Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a German philosopher best known for his pessimistic philosophy, which posited that human desire is the source of suffering. His seminal work, "The World as Will and Representation," argues that the fundamental essence of reality is a blind, irrational will driving all existence. Schopenhauer's ideas greatly influenced existentialism, psychotherapy, and later philosophers, especially Friedrich Nietzsche.
