The World as Will and Idea

Gdansk, Poland). 1805 20 April: Suicide (alleged) of his father. 1809–11 Studies in Gottingen. 1811–13 Studies at Berlin University; lectures by Fichte, Wolf, and Schleiermacher. 1813 Writes his dissertation: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. 1815 On Seeing and Colors. 1818 First Italian journey. 1819 The World as Will and Representation; with Hegel’s help, received lectureship at Berlin University 1822 Second Italian Journey. 1831 Fled Berlin because of cholera epidemic. 1833–60 Settled in Frankfurt-am-Main. 1835 On the Will in Nature. 1839 Competition essay “On the Freedom of Human Will”, awarded first prize. 1841 The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics, treated in two academic prize essays. 1844 The World as Will and Representation: second edition. 1851 Parerga and Paralipomena. 1859 The World as Will and Representation: third edition. 1860 21 September, died in Frankfurt, Germany. THE WORLD AS WILL AND IDEA