Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist

by David Bather Woods

Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist is a wonderful book. It’s a beautifully written biography of Arthur Schopenhauer that is reminiscent in style of Sarah Bakewell’s How to Live: A Life of Montaigne. It’s highly readable and highly recommended.

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Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist

by David Bather Woods

Our most recommended books

Republic by Plato

Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by David Hume

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries by Mengzi

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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Republic
by Plato

Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
by David Hume

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
by Mengzi

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Walden
by Henry David Thoreau