I am best known for my 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, I developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism.

a philosopher

I am an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist.

architect, systems theorist, writer, philosopher

philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic

I was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. I was also one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. I wrote works on philosophy, theology, ethics, politics, law, history and philology. I also made major contributions to physics and technology.