Germany gave the world a lot of philosophers, but Arthur Schopenhauer stands out among them. Contemporaries often disagreed with him, he was criticized, and the tumult around his personality and his views did not subside even decades later after his death. He stirred up the world community and gave food for thought to millions of people.
Young Arthur first decided to become a doctor and entered the medical faculty at the university, but soon changed his mind and transferred to the faculty of philosophy. His love of books, he was partly obliged to his mother, who was the mistress of the literary salon. He was often visited by famous guests, for example, Goethe. Actively reading throughout his life, Schopenhauer treated books with care. There were almost 1400 of them in his personal library. He received the title of PhD at the age of 24.
Being an obvious pessimist, Arthur Schopenhauer believed that the world in which we live is so bad that it cannot be worse. The philosopher was not indifferent to Buddhism. In his study there was always a small statue of the Buddha. He freely spoke, read and wrote in six languages. Schopenhauer argued that the greatest and most significant event in the history of world philosophy was the teachings of Kant.
The term “motivation” commonly used was coined by Arthur Schopenhauer and coined. He argued that the whole world is a display of our will, and that the world is imperfect is the fault of man. Being a misanthrope, Schopenhauer did not like people at all – all his love was given to dogs. He had a poodle, and on the walls of the study there were 16 different engravings depicting these animals. The vain philosopher repeatedly hired correspondents to look for confirmation of his popularity in society. When the first zoo-protective organizations began to appear in Germany in the 1940s, Schopenhauer took an active part in this process and became one of the activists.
