Excerpt from Schopenhauer Arthur schopenhauer may be distinctively described as the greatest phiiosophic writer of his century. SO evident is this that he has sometimes been regarded as having more import ance in literature than in philosophy; but this is an error. As a metaphysician he is second to no one since Kant. Others Of his age have sur passed him in system and in comprehensiveness; but no one has had a firmer grasp of the essen tial and fundamental problems of philosophy. On the theory of knowledge, the nature of reality, and the meaning of the beautiful and the good, he has solutions to Offer that are all results of a characteristic and original way of thinking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.