Movies Influenced by Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (German: [ˈaɐ̯tʊɐ̯ ˈʃoːpm̩ˌhaʊ̯ɐ]; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, in which he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind, insatiable, and malignant metaphysical will. Proceeding from the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism, rejecting the contemporaneous post-Kantian philosophies of German idealism.Schopenhauer was among the first thinkers in Western philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Eastern philosophy (e.g., asceticism, the world-as-appearance), having initially arrived at similar conclusions as the result of his own philosophical work. His writing on aesthetics, morality, and psychology would exert important influence on thinkers and artists throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Schopenhauer believed that humans were motivated by only their own basic desires, or Wille zum Leben ("Will to Live"), which directed all of mankind.
For Schopenhauer, human desire was futile, illogical, directionless, and, by extension, so was all human action in the world. Einstein paraphrased his views as follows: "Man can indeed do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wants." In this sense, he adhered to the Fichtean principle of idealism: "The world is for a subject." This idealism so presented, immediately commits it to an ethical attitude, unlike the purely epistemological concerns of Descartes and Berkeley. To Schopenhauer, the Will is a malignant, metaphysical existence that controls not only the actions of individual, intelligent agents, but ultimately all observable phenomena.
Schopenhauer believed that humans were motivated by only their own basic desires, or Wille zum Leben ("Will to Live"), which directed all of mankind.
For Schopenhauer, human desire was futile, illogical, directionless, and, by extension, so was all human action in the world. Einstein paraphrased his views as follows: "Man can indeed do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wants." In this sense, he adhered to the Fichtean principle of idealism: "The world is for a subject." This idealism so presented, immediately commits it to an ethical attitude, unlike the purely epistemological concerns of Descartes and Berkeley. To Schopenhauer, the Will is a malignant, metaphysical existence that controls not only the actions of individual, intelligent agents, but ultimately all observable phenomena.
People who voted for this also voted for
Whitesnake works
Films Watched 2016
British Comedy: Early Doors
♥Australia "The Land Down Under"♥
British Comedy: The Fosters
FIFA World Cup Winners: France ★★
Movies RE-Watched in 2019
Top Ten Films - Jean-Luc Godard
My Favorite Movies of the 50's
personal data (fictitious)
Collage Films
Kaneto Shindo's Films Ranked (1912-2012)
Great Singles of the 1950s
Slovak miniatures folk costumes
Big Finish: The 7th Doctor (Novel Adaptions)
More lists from Nusch
Books Scenes | Friedrich Nietzsche
Woodcut
Movies about suicide
Best Films Watched in 2019
Art History | The Golden Age of Illustration
Art History | 1850 - 1910
Folk-Horror Movies