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The name of the German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), used allusively, esp. for the pessimism and concept of will for which his philosophy is noted. Hence ˈSchopenhaueresque a., resembling, of the same type as, the ideas of Schopenhauer; ˈSchopenhauerian (also as n.), ˈSchopenhauerish adjs., characterized by the doctrines or ideas of Schopenhauer; ˈSchopenhauerism, the pessimistic and atheistic philosophy of Schopenhauer, according to which the world is governed by a blind cosmic will entailing suffering from which man finds release only through knowledge, contemplation, and compassion; ˈSchopenhauerist, ˈSchopenhauerite, a follower of Schopenhauer or his doctrines.
1882W. S. Lilly in 19th Cent. May 713 Schopenhauerism..is little more than Buddhism vulgarized. 1882Mind VII. 561 Thought, with Hegel, stands for something objective and unconscious (like the Schopenhaurian Will). 1891G. B. Shaw Let. 25 Oct. (1965) I. 317 This does not make me a Schopenhaurist, or Ibsen one. 1898― Perfect Wagnerite 101 Wagner's determination to prove he had been a Schopenhaurite all along. 1906Academy 10 Mar. 233/1 It is a shallow philosophy that issues in Schopenhauerism. 1906Daily Chron. 26 Sept. 4/4 You would say at one glance that he is a pessimistic ass, a Schopenhauer of donkeys. 1908Edin. Rev. Apr. 423 He is a Schopenhauerian. 1928C. E. M. Joad Diogenes 96 We shall all be living Schopenhauerian lives. 1959K. F. Leidecker tr. Nietzsche's Lett. (1960) 50 To infuse into my presentation of the science this new blood, to transfer to my hearers that Schopenhauerian seriousness which is impressed on the forehead of this grand man,—this is my desire, my audacious hope. 1965New Statesman 18 June 971/1 The shuddering Schopenhaueresque preoccupation with personal annihilation. 1968Guardian 30 July 4/1 The Schopenhauerish misanthropy of the essays. 1976Amer. N. & Q. XV. 57/1 A rather gloomy Schopenhauerian melancholy and despair in The White Peacock and The Trespasser. |