A Schopenhauer Cheat Sheet

Handy conceptual shortcuts (+ a few comic touches)

Cynthia Giles
Schopenhauer & Friends
4 min readDec 12, 2019

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Courtesy of Corey Mohler, Existential Comics: Schopenhauer at the Market

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) may be the most interesting of all modern philosophers. He is widely credited as the father of modern pessimistic philosophy, and a major influence in key 20th-century developments such as:

  • symbolist, absurdist and postmodern literature

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Cynthia Giles
Schopenhauer & Friends

Writer at large, Ph.D. in interdisciplinary humanities. Persistently curious! Launching Complexity Press, Spring 2023.