Essays and Aphorisms : Design by Coralie Bickford-Smith

Essays and Aphorisms : Design by Coralie Bickford-Smith
ISBN: 9780141395913
Publication Date: 22 October 2014

Schopenhauer believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. These writings depict individuals struggling in a Godless world, in which art, morality and self-awareness are our only salvation. They are a searing vision of the human condition.

About the Author

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer attempted to make his career as an academic by correcting and expanding Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world.