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Schopenhauer

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Schopenhauer - A Professor and Philosopher

Schopenhauer thought that all this was a bit of a er bombastic kind of smoke screen for some rather empty thought. Hegel's idea that everything is progressing towards perfection through history, was something completely anathema to schopenhauer. After one somester of teaching, never returned to his academic career. But throughout his life he was very contemptuous towards what he called university professors,. people who made a career out of doing philosophy. His attack on hegel didn't have any effect on the philosopher's reputation.

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