Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) is
considered by many to be a brilliant,
manysided philosopher, at times caustic,
who attained posthumously even popular
acclaim. His principal work, The World
as Will and Idea, starts with the
thesis that the world is my my idea, a
primary fact of consciousness implying the
inseparableness of subject and object. His
ethics is based on the will to be, the
will to live, and this is the cause of all
struggle, sorrow, and evil in the
world.