Kingston Philosophy Café

At 19:00 Barrie Selwyn will give a talk on the relationships between the visionary English poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) and the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer German: 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860). This meeting will be held at Richmond & Hillcroft Adult Community College main site in Richmond.

Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. Schopenauer is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism.