Studies in Pessimism
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: G. Allen 1913
ISBN/ASIN: 1602063494
Number of pages: 152
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A disciple of Kant and a significant factor in shaping Nietzsche's thinking, Arthur Schopenhauer worked from the foundation that reality is but an extension of our own will, and that human life is characterized chiefly by misery.
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