Publication at Second Faculty of Medicine |
2002
Abstract
The work of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1778-1860) represents the culmination of the philosophy of consolation grounded originally by the antic stoic philosophers The Schopenhauer's philosophy is considerable pessimistic and some his biographers mean that the pessimism was conditioned by author's depressive illness. In such a case, his philosophy could be an attempt at a self-treatment as well.
On the basis of summing up the philosopher's life and the main ideas of his work the parallels to psychotherapeutic thinking of the 20(th) century are inferred in the study. Schopenhauer's ideas are akin to some points of psychological theories of S.
Freud, A. Ellis, A.
Beck, and V. E.
Frankl.