The Schopenhauer Syndrom

A. Schopenhauer 1788-1860, that I intimely named Schopy, used to hate Hegel.

At the beginning of 1820, Schopenhauer advertised a course of lectures to be given at the same time as George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's (1770-1831),

but when Hegel attracted more students the course did not proceed.

Since this time, he spent his whole life hating Hegel and his philosophy.

He lived in relative isolation, preferring the company of dogs to people.

"Five-sixths of human beings are worth only contempt", he once wrote.

It was claimed, that he once pushed a neighbor down a flight of stairs for disturbing him. For the unlucky woman, a seamstress named Caroline Luise Marguet, who could not continue in her former profession, he had to pay 60 talers for the rest of her life.

I love Schopy :)