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a commercial life; declines the alternative offered by his
father; starts with his parents on a tour through Europe,
1803 to 1805; three months at a Wimbledon boarding-
school; early traits of character, and impressions of his
journey; enters a merchant's office at Dantzic, 1804, and
at Hamburg, 1805; attends Gall's lectures on mental
physiology; death of his father, April, 1805; his mother
goes to Weimar, and becomes a social and literary success;
he comes under the influence of Romanticism; Romanti-
cism defined; dissatisfaction with life; his mother agrees
to his retiring from mercantile life; his gratitude to his
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CHAPTER III.
Development of classical studies--especially of Greek--in the
early years of this century; Schopenhauer goes to school at
Gotha and Weimar, 1807; his enthusiasm for the classics;
his strained relations with his mother, due to their opposite
characters; his personal property; enters University of
Göttingen, October, 1809; the position of philosophy at
the time; his views of Plato and Kant; life at Göttingen;
meets Wieland; moves to University of Berlin, 1811; his
contempt for the "university professor"; the charges of
plagiarism made against him; the contrast between him
and Fichte; on the rise of Prussia against Napoleon, he
moves to Rudolstadt, 1813; takes his Doctor's degree at
Jena; publishes as his Doctor's essay "A Philosophical
Treatise on the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient
Reason," 1813; its qualities and method; returns to
Weimar; further and final disagreements with his mother;
who was to blame? his views on the heredity of the Will
and Intellect; Goethe's theory of Light; he seeks Schopen-
hauer's support; the latter moves to Dresden, 1814; his
essay "On Vision and Colours" (published, 1816) 55
CHAPTER IV.
Schopenhauer's life at Dresden; his pessimism; his contempt
for the lower, physical nature of man; his objections to
materialism and spiritualism; his "necessary creed--'I

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Publication Information: Book Title: Life of Arthur Schopenhauer. Contributors: W. Wallace - author. Publisher: Walter Scott. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1890. Page Number: 6.
    
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