The Power of Schopenhauer

A philosophy for life that prizes beauty and compassion

Rogelio de Egusquiza, Tristan und Isolde, 1915. Schopenhauer was one of the first philosophers to write extensively about sexuality. (source: Wikipedia)

Europe had been torn apart by the time Arthur Schopenhauer was a young man. Napoleon had marched east seizing state after state in his conquest to build a mighty French empire that could rival ancient Rome.

The German-speaking world was profoundly affected by Napoleon’s conquests. At the time the…