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Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher best known for his book The World as Will and Representation (German: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung) in which he claimed that our world is driven by a continually dissatisfied will continually seeking satisfaction.

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birth date
1788-02-22
birth place
Gdańsk, Kingdom of Prussia, Sztutowo
death date
1860-09-21
death place
Frankfurt, Germany
era
19th-century philosophy
influenced
Jorge Luis Borges
influenced by
Buddhism
main interest
Aesthetics, Ethics, Metaphysics, Psychology, Morality, Phenomenology (philosophy)
notableIdea
Pessimism, Will (philosophy), On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
philosophicalSchool
Immanuel Kant, German idealism

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