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Arthur Schopenhauer's most respected works, wherein the philosopher shares his views on life and what he believes to be follies of human behavior. In The Counsels and Maxims he discusses how to order our lives to obtain the greatest amount of pleasure and success; then he offers guidelines for living life to its fullest. But for Schopenhauer a life well lived should always reach beyond itself to a higher plane
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Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gda?sk, Poland) and was a German philosopher best known for his work . Schopenhauer attempted to make his career as an academic by correcting and expanding Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world. He was the son of author and the older brother of
