Arthur Schopenhauer: Pessimism, Compassion, and the Search for Peace

Few philosophers have left behind a worldview as stark, haunting, and strangely compelling as Arthur Schopenhauer. Born in 1788 in the city of Danzig, Schopenhauer became one of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century. Though largely ignored during much of his early career, his writings later inspired artists, writers, psychologists, and philosophers including Friedrich Nietzsche,…