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Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, 1855.
After transferring from medicine to the humanities at the University of Göttingen, Arthur Schopenhauer concentrated his studies most closely on Plato and Immanuel Kant.1
He later identified these two thinkers, alongside the Upaniṣads (philosophic Vedas), as the foundational pillars upon which he constructed his own philosophical system.2