A few philosophers have recognized that something can be learned from cats. The nineteenth-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (born in 1788) is famous for his love of poodles, a succession of which he kept throughout his later years, calling all of them by the same names – Atma and Butz. He also had at least one feline companion. When he died of heart failure in 1860, he was found at home on his couch beside an unnamed cat.
