Arthur Schopenhauer as Philosophical Anthropologist
Keywords:
man, human nature, individuality, character, philosophical anthropology, psychological types, destructivity, unconsciousAbstract
The paper offers the first ever analysis of Schopenhauer’s ideas in philosophical anthropology. No historian of philosophy has ever considered the possibility of finding in this philosopher a consistent and an highly paradoxical doctrine of man. The author claims that Schopenhauer provoked a radical turn in the history of philosophical anthropology.