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ArthurSchopenhauer
[http://www.friesian.com/images/arthur.jpg] Nineteenth century philosopher. Schopenhauer argued that we are aware of the the nature of the things-in-themselves was only perceptible as aspects of will; and as such the phemomenal world is essentially a manifestation of will. The effect of this is to ensure that suffering is the essential characteristic of existence, a view that was to prove a strong influence on such figures as Thomas Hardy. The only relief postulated by Schopenhauer lay in a denial of will and the self altogether. ---- See other PhilosophersAndBrigands.
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