The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer died on September 21, 1860 (August 7, 1860). On September 21, 1860, the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer died. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788¨C1860). He inherited Kant's distinction between phenomena and things themselves. Unlike his counterparts Fechter, Shellin, Hegel and other practices of abolishing things themselves, he insisted on the subject itself and believed it could be recognized through intuition and defined as will. Will independent of time, space, all nature and knowledge belonged to it. People escaped from it only during aesthetic meditation. Zheng has linked its famous extreme pessimism with this doctrine, believing that the association of will eventually