The Philosophy of SchopenhauerDale Jacquette charts the development of Schopenhauer's ideas from the time of his early dissertation on The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason through the two editions of his magnum opus The World as Will and Representation to his later collections of philosophical aphorisms and competition essays. Jacquette explores the central topics in Schopenhauer's philosophy including his metaphysics of the world as representation and Will, his so-called pessimistic philosophical appraisal of the human condition, his examination of the concept of death, his dualistic analysis of free will, and his simplified non-Kantian theory of morality. Jacquette shows how these many complex themes fit together in a unified portrait of Schopenhauer's philosophy. The synthesis of Plato, Kant and Buddhist and Hindu ideas is given particular attention as is his influence on Nietzsche, first a follower and then arch opponent of Schopenhauer's thought, and the early Wittgenstein. The book provides a comprehensive and in-depth historical and philosophical introduction to Schopenhauer's distinctive contribution to philosophy. |
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... Empirical knowledge of the world as representation: from natural science to transcendental metaphysics 40 3 Willing and the world as Will 71 4 Suffering, salvation, death, and renunciation of the will to life 108 5 Art and aesthetics of ...
... Empirical knowledge of the world as representation: from natural science to transcendental metaphysics 40 3 Willing and the world as Will 71 4 Suffering, salvation, death, and renunciation of the will to life 108 5 Art and aesthetics of ...
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... empirical “willing” and the individual empirical or phenomenological “will” or “will to life” (der Wille zum Leben) in the phenomenal psychology of individual thinkers in lower-case letters, in contrast with Schopenhauer's concept of ...
... empirical “willing” and the individual empirical or phenomenological “will” or “will to life” (der Wille zum Leben) in the phenomenal psychology of individual thinkers in lower-case letters, in contrast with Schopenhauer's concept of ...
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... Empirical Sciences that the Author's Philosophy has Received Since its First Appearance (1992). Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation (1966). Therefore, in a certain sense, it can also be said. xiii Abbreviations.
... Empirical Sciences that the Author's Philosophy has Received Since its First Appearance (1992). Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation (1966). Therefore, in a certain sense, it can also be said. xiii Abbreviations.
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... empirical science of his day with mystic wisdom in a radically idealist metaphysics and epistemology. The fundamental distinction in Schopenhauer's philosophy marks a dualistic conception of the world as representation, as it appears to ...
... empirical science of his day with mystic wisdom in a radically idealist metaphysics and epistemology. The fundamental distinction in Schopenhauer's philosophy marks a dualistic conception of the world as representation, as it appears to ...
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... empirical willing or will to life. Schopenhauer concludes that the soul's only attainable salvation from suffering is to renounce and to whatever extent possible deny and suppress the will to life in the interests of knowledge, to which ...
... empirical willing or will to life. Schopenhauer concludes that the soul's only attainable salvation from suffering is to renounce and to whatever extent possible deny and suppress the will to life in the interests of knowledge, to which ...
Contents
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1 Schopenhauers idealism | 11 |
from natural science to transcendental metaphysics | 40 |
3 Willing and the world as Will | 71 |
4 Suffering salvation death and renunciation of the will to life | 108 |
5 Art and aesthetics of the beautiful and sublime | 145 |
6 Transcendental freedom of Will | 180 |
7 Compassion as the philosophical foundation of morality | 203 |
8 Schopenhauers legacy in the philosophy of Nietzsche Heidegger and the early Wittgenstein | 234 |
Notes | 265 |
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according to Schopenhauer actions aesthetic genius appears argument Arthur Schopenhauer artistic ascetic basis beauty body Buddhism categorical imperative causal compassion concept consciousness critical death desire distinction egoistic empirical epistemology essay existence of thing-in-itself experience explanation expression fact fourfold root freedom G. H. von Wright hauer Heidegger human in-itself individual’s inner nature intelligible character intuitive knowledge Janaway judgement Kant Kant’s Kantian laws logical mathematical merely metaphysics moral philosophy motivation motivational laws natural science Nietzsche Nietzsche’s noumenon perceived perception person phenomenal world physical Platonic Ideas possible presupposed principium individuationis principle of sufficient proof proposition psychological pure rational reality recognize relation representationally Schopen Schopenhauer argues Schopenhauer believes Schopenhauer regards Schopenhauer’s philosophy Schopenhauer’s theory Schopenhauerian sense space subjective idealism sublime suffering sufficient reason suicide supposed thing-in thing-in-itself things thinkers thinking subject thought tion Tractatus transcendent transcendental idealism truth understanding Will’s objectification Wittgenstein world as representation