Schopenhauer's pessimism, metaphysics and aesthetics have influenced many aspects such as philosophy, art and psychology. The famous figures who are considered to be influenced by him are

Philosophers: Nietzsche, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Bergson, Popper, Hawke Hammer.

Psychologists: Freud, Jung

Writers: Tolstoy, Mo Bosang, Thomas Mann, Beckett, Svewar.

Artists: Bernard Shaw, Wagner, Mahler

Poets: dylan thomas, Borges

Scientists: Einstein, Schrodinger, Darwin

Schopenhauer is one of the few philosophers that Wittgenstein has read and appreciated. It influenced many philosophers such as Nietzsche and Sartre, and opened up irrational philosophy. Nietzsche appreciated his works very much and wrote a letter to Schopenhauer as an educator in memory of him. Wagner dedicated the opera The Ring of Nibelungen to Schopenhauer. Mo Bosang called him "the greatest dream destroyer in human history". Wang Guowei, a master of Chinese studies, was also deeply influenced by Schopenhauer. He commented on Song Ci with Schopenhauer's theory in his book "The Thorn on Earth". He also developed Redology with the help of his own theory and made great achievements.

Schopenhauer (1788— 1860) is different from philosophers in many aspects. almost

There are other philosophers who are optimists in a sense, but he is a pessimist. He is not like Kant.

Like Hegel, they are full of academic circles, but they are not completely divorced from academic traditions. More important than pessimism is the theory of will first. Obviously, there is no necessary logic between this theory and pessimism.

Schopenhauer later argued that people often get the basis of optimism from it. There are many modern philosophers,

It is worth noting that Nietzsche, Bergson, James and Dewey have always advocated the supremacy of will in one form or another.

In addition, this theory is also very popular outside the circle of professional philosophers. So, with the rise of the status of wills, and so on.

The status of knowledge has dropped several levels. I think this is the most remarkable change in the philosophical temperament of our time.

This change was prepared by Rousseau and Kant, but Schopenhauer first announced it in a pure form. Because of this

Because, although his philosophy is inconsistent and superficial, it is still a stage in historical development.

Quite important.