This author of On the Freedom of the Will called the ontological argument a "charming joke." One of his works refutes the Kantian belief that noumena are independent of human awareness. He stated that all truths have an underlying reason in On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
This author of On the Freedom of the Will called the ontological argument a "charming joke." One of his works refutes the Kantian belief that noumena are independent of human awareness. He stated that all truths have an underlying reason in On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. In one work he describes aesthetics as a short-lived escape from willing and argues that the human body is the representation of the two title concepts, which are respectively its internal and external aspects. For 10 points, name this German philosopher who authored The World as Will and Representation.
This author of On the Freedom of the Will called the ontological argument a "charming joke.
Arthur Schopenhauer 