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the philosopher who said life is a pendulum swinging between pain and boredom, and meant it.
means a 19th-century german philosopher who argued that a blind, striving cosmic will underlies all existence and guarantees perpetual dissatisfaction.
from born 1788 in danzig to a wealthy merchant family, he trained in medicine and science before philosophy, and wrote his masterwork the world as will and representation at 30 expecting fame that took another 30 years to arrive.
kant's heirclaimed to finish what kant started, uninvited
hegel hatredscheduled his lectures to compete with hegel's, lost badly
poodle loverkept a succession of poodles all named atma
buddhist before it was coolone of first western philosophers to praise buddhism seriously
for instance
nietzsche — discovered him in a leipzig bookshop in 1865, was never the same
wittgenstein — read him as a teenager, absorbed the will-representation split
freud's unconscious — schopenhauer's blind will basically pre-drafted freud's id