Essential Schopenhauer Key Selections from the World As Will and Representation and Other Writings

Name: Essential Schopenhauer Key Selections from the World As Will and Representation and Other Writings
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ISBN: 9780061768248

ISBN-10: 0061768243

ISBN-13: 9780061768248

Edition: 2010

Authors: Arthur Schopenhauer

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What is the meaning of life? How should I live? Is there any purpose to the universe? Generations have turned to the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer because he tackled the big issues. His influence has extended not only to later philosophers-Nietzsche foremost among them-but across the most brilliant novelists, musicians, and artists of all disciplines. Schopenhauer believed that the world was a cold, absurd place, and that it was only by the force of an individual's Will that any meaning could be created. He also believed that the universe itself had a Will-a spiritual force many have likened to "The Way," spoken of by Taoists. This, the first English collection of…

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List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/9/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



Living Disaster: Schopenhauer for the Twenty-first Century


Schopenhauer Timeline



On the Suffering of the World



On the Affirmation of the Will-to-Live



On the Vanity and Suffering of Life



Freedom of the Will



Principle of Sufficient Reason of Knowing



The World as Will



Knowledge of the Idea



On the Inner Nature of Art



Metaphysics of the Beautiful and Aesthetics



The Artist and the Sublime



On Education



On Noise



On Women



On Suicide



On the Basis of Ethics



Eternal and Temporal Justice



Compassion



Mystics, Saints, Ascetics



Death and Rebirth



The Fullness of Nothingness


Suggested Further Reading


Sources


Index