Schopenhauer: Philosophy in an Hour

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Paul Strathern. Schopenhauer: Philosophy in an Hour

Schopenhauer. PHILOSOPHY IN AN HOUR. Paul Strathern

Contents

Introduction

Schopenhauer’s Life and Works

Afterword

Further Information. From Schopenhauer’s Writings

Chronology of Significant Philosophical Dates

Chronology of Schopenhauer’s Life

Recommended Reading

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Title Page

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Schopenhauer was deeply aware of such things and wished to play his own part in the world of culture. But this was not to be. His father browbeat him into becoming a businessman. At the end of his grand tour of Europe, Schopenhauer was forced to abandon his education and become apprenticed to a local business in Hamburg. This was a time of deep – and deeply repressed – personal distress for Schopenhauer. (At the same age, a very similar conflict caused the equally tough-minded Hume to suffer a nervous breakdown.)

Then suddenly Schopenhauer’s entire situation changed. In the early hours of April 20, 1805, Schopenhauer’s father climbed to the top of the warehouse at the back of the family mansion and flung himself into the Fleet. The precise nexus of reasons for his suicide remains uncertain. His marriage had become something of a painful charade; the European scene was immensely depressing; and business prospects didn’t look good. Yet perhaps more pertinent was his deep streak of melancholy (which his son was to inherit) and a family history of mental instability (Arthur’s paternal grandmother went insane). But Schopenhauer’s mind does not appear to have been affected by madness – there was to be no saner philosopher than Schopenhauer.

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