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unusual facts about Philosophy of Life



Emanuel Rádl

Influenced by the German biologist and philosopher Hans Driesch, he became interested in philosophy of life and in a large work The History of Biological Theories (in German 1905–1909, in English 1930; reprint in 1988) he criticized the evolutionism of the 19th century.

Ferdinand Fellmann

The philosopher to whom Fellmann refers in most of his texts is Schopenhauer, the father of modern Philosophy of Life, regarding the world as Will and Representation.


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Angst Is Not a Weltanschauung

Angst Is Not a Weltanschauung (fear is not a philosophy of life) is an album by B. Fleischmann, released in 2008.

Influence of Bhagavad Gita

J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and director of the Manhattan Project, learned Sanskrit in 1933 and read the Bhagavad Gita in the original, citing it later as one of the most influential books to shape his philosophy of life.

Yehuda Elkana

For Elkana,'any philosophy of life nurtured solely or mostly by the Holocaust leads to disastrous consequences,' and Thomas Jefferson was correct in his view that democracy and worship of the past were incompatible.