Arthur Schopenhauer’s Penchant for Animals

Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

I don’t know whether Arthur Schopenhauer liked animals, but he sure did talk about them a lot. And what he had to say makes you wonder if he wasn’t Plato come back as a 19th-century zoologist pretending to be a philosopher.

If his philosophical theory is right, he really had no choice.

Sources:

• The World as Will and Representation (1818/1819)
• On the Freedom of the Will (1839)