|birth_place = [[Gdańsk|Danzig]] (Gdańsk)
|death_date   = {{Death date and age|1860|9|21|1788|2|22|df=y}}
|death_place  = [[Frankfurt]], [[German Confederation]]
| nationality = [[German fowk|German]]
| residence   = [[Germany|Danzig, Hamburg an finally German Confederation]]
|work_institution = [[Varsity o Göttingen]], [[Varsity o Berlin]]
|school_tradition = [[Post-Kantian philosophie]]
|main_interests   = [[Metapheesics]], [[aesthetics]], [[ethics]], [[phenomenology (philosophie)|phenomenology]], [[morality]], [[psychology]]
|notable_ideas    = [[Will (philosophie)|Will]], [[Fowerfauld ruit o the sufficient principle o raison|Fowerfauld ruit o raison]], [[Hedgehog's dilemma]], [[philosophical pessimism]]
| influences       = [[Buddhism]]{{·}}[[Immanuel Kant|Kant]]{{·}}[[Plato]]{{·}}[[Upanishads]]
| influenced       = [[Samuel Beckett|Beckett]]{{·}}[[Jorge Luis Borges|Borges]]{{·}}[[Joseph Campbell|Campbell]]{{·}}[[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]{{·}}[[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]{{·}}[[John Gray (philosopher)|Gray]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-gray-forget-everything-you-know-641878.html |title=John Gray: Forget everything you know&nbsp;— Profiles, People |publisher=The Independent |date=3 September 2002 |accessdate=12 March 2010 |location=London |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409072731/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-gray-forget-everything-you-know-641878.html |archivedate=2010-04-09 |deadurl=no |url-status=live }}</ref>{{·}}[[Max Horkheimer|Horkheimer]]{{·}}[[Carl Jung|Jung]]{{·}}[[Karl Kraus (writer)|Kraus]]{{·}}[[Thomas Mann|Mann]]{{·}}[[Karl Eugen Neumann|Neumann]]{{·}}[[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]]{{·}}[[Gilbert Ryle|Ryle]]{{·}}[[George Santayana|Santayana]]{{·}}[[Erwin Schrödinger|Schrödinger]]{{·}}[[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]]{{·}}[[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]{{·}}[[Otto Weininger|Weininger]]{{·}}[[Ludwig Wittgenstein|Wittgenstein]]{{·}}[[Peter Wessel Zapffe|Zapffe]]}}
'''Arthur Schopenhauer''' ({{IPA-de|ˈaʁtʊʁ ˈʃɔpənˌhaʊ̯ɐ|lang}}; 22 Februar 1788&nbsp;– 21 September 1860) wis a [[Germans|German]] [[philosopher]]. He is best kent for his 1818 wark ''[[The Warld as Will an Representation]]'' (wauxt in 1844), whaurin he chairacterises the [[Phenomenon|phenomenal]] warld as the product o a blinnd an stainchless [[Schopenhauer#The warld as will|metapheesical will]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Essays and Aphorisms|year=2004|publisher=Penguin Classics|isbn=978-0-14-044227-4|author=Arthur Schopenhauer|page=23}}</ref><ref>The Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary. 'Schopenhauer': Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 1298. {{ISBN|978-0-19-861248-3}}.</ref> Proceedin frae the [[transcendental idealism]] o [[Immanuel Kant]], Schopenhauer developit an [[atheistic]] metapheesical an ethical seestem that haes been descrived as an exemplar kythin o [[philosophical pessimism]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Essays and Aphorisms|year=2004|publisher=Penguin Classics|isbn=978-0-14-044227-4|author=Arthur Schopenhauer|pages=22–36|quote= …but there has been none who tried with so great a show of learning to demonstrate that the pessimistic outlook is ''justified'', that life itself is really bad. It is to this end that Schopenhauer’s metaphysic of will and idea exists.}}</ref><ref>''[http://librivox.org/studies-in-pessimism-by-arthur-schopenhauer/ Studies in Pessimism]'' – audiobeuk frae [[LibriVox]].</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, Volume 2|year=2009|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-387-71801-9|editor1=David A. Leeming |editor2=Kathryn Madden |editor3=Stanton Marlan |page=824|quote=A more accurate statement might be that for a German – rather than a French or British writer of that time – Schopenhauer was an honest and open atheist.}}<!--|accessdate=2 September 2012--></ref> rejectin the contemporaneous [[post-Kantian thocht|post-Kantian philosophies]] o [[German idealism]].<ref>Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1, trans. E. Payne, (New York: Dover Publishing Inc., 1969), Vol. 2, Ch. 50.</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts|year=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-04406-6|editor=Dale Jacquette|page=162|quote=For Kant, the mathematical sublime, as seen for example in the starry heavens, suggests to imagination the infinite, which in turn leads by subtle turns of contemplation to the concept of God. Schopenhauer's atheism will have none of this, and he rightly observes that despite adopting Kant's distinction between the dynamical and mathematical sublime, his theory of the sublime, making reference to the struggles and sufferings of struggles and sufferings of Will, is unlike Kant's.}}<!--|accessdate=2 September 2012--></ref> Schopenhauer wis amang the first thinkers in [[Wastren philosophie]] tae skare an affirm signeeficant tenets o [[Eastren philosophie]] (e.g., [[asceticism]], the warld-as-[[appearance (philosophie)|appearance]]), haein ineetially arrived at seemilar conclusions as the eftercast o his ain philosophical wark.<ref>See the beuk-lenth study aboot oriental influences on the genesis o Schopenhauer's philosophie bi [[Urs App]]: ''Schopenhauer's Compass. An Introduction to Schopenhauer's Philosophy and its Origins''. Wil: UniversityMedia, 2014 ({{ISBN|978-3-906000-03-9}})</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=An Introduction to the History of Psychology|edition=6th|year=2009|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-495-50621-8|last=Hergenhahn |first=B. R.|page=216|quote=Although Schopenhauer was an atheist, he realized that his philosophy of denial had been part of several great religions; for example, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism.}}<!--|accessdate=2 September 2012--></ref>