When Paul Cliteur began lecturing at Leiden University in the Netherlands (1984), he was strongly influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). The philosopher born in Gdańsk (then part of the Polish ...

Arthur Schopenhauer called his writing the work of a “clumsy charlatan,” which rendered readers “incapable of reflection, coarse and bewildered.” ...

But Schopenhauer was onto something: We have plenty of evidence that music truly is one of the greatest ways to understand life more deeply. Arthur C. Brooks: Schopenhauer’s advice on how to ...