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21. The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Arthur Schopenhauer, David Cartwright, Edward E. Erdmann, Christopher Janaway | |
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22. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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(1945)
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Mistake in Table of Contents
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23. The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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(2010-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description A new, comprehensive English anthology 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 for answers to such essential questions of existence. His influence has extended not only to later philosophers—Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein among them—but also to musicians, artists, and important novelists such as Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and Proust. The Essential Schopenhauer, the most comprehensive English anthology now available of this seminal thinker’s writings, will open English readers to Schopenhauer’s profound ideas. Selected by Wolfgang Schirmacher, president of the International Schopenhauer Association, The Essential Schopenhauer is an invaluable and accessible introduction to Schopenhauer’s powerful body of work. |
24. Schopenhauer Selections by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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(2010-09-17)
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only dreamers can call him pessimistic |
25. On the Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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(1998-09-01)
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Schopenhauer's Basis for Morality
An Absolutely Beautiful Book |
26. On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Dodo Press) by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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(2008-10-16)
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If you could only read one phylosophy book, this would be a good choice
A FRUSTRATING edition of an essential philosophical master piece
The Open Court Classics edition translates all quotations Schopenhauer cites
hard to find
Good Book, Cosimo Classics=Bad Translation |
27. Essay on the Freedom of the Will (Philosophical Classics) (Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences Winner) by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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(2005-05-06)
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Thought-Provoking Discussion on Freedom of the Will
Schopenhauer at his best
Not a case for determinism
Engaging, but open to question.
A powerful examination of free will and determinism Schopenhauer thinks that humans have "relative freedom" but that relative freedom is to act in accordance with the motives that are necessitated by the Will-- which in turn is the determining factor of human behavior. In humans the linkage of cause and effect is of a far greater distance than that of intuitive animals-- causing us to mistakingly exclude our behavior from the law of casaulity-- but in the end 'the Will' still determines actions by what he calls "sufficient necessitiy". "For he (human beings) allows the motives repeatedly to try their strength on his will, one against the other. His will is thus put in the same position as that of a body that is acted on by different forces in opposite directions - until at last the decidedly strongest motive drives the others from the field and determines the will. This outcome is called decision and, as a result of the struggle, appears with complete necessity." Unlike Sartre's treatise on freedom, which ultimately collapsed into obscurity and contradiction, Scophenhauer's rightly contends that a fixed essence is inborn (what we would today call DNA). In other words, it contradicts Sartre's saying that "existence precedes essence." For Schopenhauer, neither precedes the other. The two are inseparable. The expression of the essence can change through experience within the environment but the fundamental aspects of it remaininstrinsic to the organism (Genes/Biology). Schopenhauer responds to the proponents of absolute free will, who haven't carefully analyzed what it means for the 'will' to be free, by writing: "Closely considered, the freedom of the will means an existentia without essentia; this is equivalent to saying that something is and yet at the same time is nothing, which again means that it is not and thus is a contradiction." So my guess is that if Sartre had happened to stumble upon this particular essay he might have realized that it was he who was in "bad faith" about man being condemned to be free. It should also be noted that if Schopenhauer is wrong about mans intrinsic nature then all of the social sciences are a fraud and particularly psychology is wrong when it takes genes, biology, and the environment into consideration when interpreting and analyzing human behavior. The reason people object to philosophical determinism is that it makes morality and personal responsibility a precarious thing. One valuable thing we can adopt from Sartre's ideas is that it is imperative that we take responsibility for our choices. But being that pragmatism is the philosophy of the U.S. and not existentalism, it is more than likely the masses will always assume that Free Will exists because the stability of civil society depends on it. In light of all of this it should be mentioned that Schopenhauer does not think that people can't be morally reformed. In other words he thinks that the expression of behavior can be cultivated. Many people credit Nietzsche for coming up with the idea of sublimation that would later be used by Freud, but it was actually Schopenhauer who was the first speak of the idea. "Cultivation of reason by cognitions and insights of every kind is morally important, because it opens the way to motives which would be closed off to the human being without it." Schopenhauer also condemns a moral system that tries to root out the defects of a person's character rather than utilizing sublimation. For those who consider this type of philosophy immoral because it seems to exclude the possibility of moral responsibility we should remember that in Christianity there is the concept of predesination, and in Islam there is a religious fatalism.On top of that fact, many of the church fathers (Augustine and Luther) didn't accept the notion of free will either. I highly recommend this book! ... Read more |
28. On Human Nature by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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29. Arthur Schopenhauer: Knowledge Products (Giants of Philosophy) (Library Edition) by Charleton Heston (Narrator) Mark Stone | |
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Sufficient Rational?
Excellent summary of Schopenhauer if you can track it down |
30. The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) | |
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(1999-10-13)
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Anglo-American Claptrap
Follow Schopenhauer's Own Advice
Mixed Bag on the Misanthropic Misogynist Metaphysician. |
31. Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy by Rüdiger Safranski | |
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(1991-09-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description This richly detailed biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century philosophy pays equal attention to the life and to the work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Rüdiger Safranski places this visionary skeptic in the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel--and explores the sources of his profound alienation from their "secularized religion of reason." He also provides a narrative of Schopenhauer's personal and family life that reads like a Romantic novel: the struggle to break free from a domineering father, the attempt to come to terms with his mother's literary and social success (she was a well-known writer and a member of Goethe's Weimar circle), the loneliness and despair when his major philosophical work, The World as Will and Representation, was ignored by the academy. Along the way Safranski portrays the rich culture of Goethe's Weimar, Hegel's Berlin, and other centers of German literary and intellectual life. When Schopenhauer first proposed his philosophy of "weeping and gnashing of teeth," during the heady "wild years" of Romantic idealism, it found few followers. After the disillusionments and failures of 1848, his work was rediscovered by philosophers and literary figures. Writers from Nietzsche to Samuel Beckett have responded to Schopenhauer's refusal to seek salvation through history.The first biography of Schopenhauer to appear in English in this century, Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy succeeds in bringing to life an intriguing figure in philosophy and the intellectual battles of his time, whose consequences still shape our world. Customer Reviews (10)
Marvelous!
Read Bryan Magee instead!
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Arthur Schopenhauer: A Man and His Misery |
32. In Search of Schopenhauer's Cat: Arthur Schopenhauer's Quantum-Mystical Theory of Justice by Raymond B. Marcin | |
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(2006-02)
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33. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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(2006-06-12)
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34. Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Christopher Janaway | |
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(2002-05-16)
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Embrace the pessimism and deny your will...
A very short perfect introduction to Schopenhauer
A good and compact summary
A splendid introduction to an influential thinker
First Rate |
35. Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosopher of Pessimism by Frederick Charles Copleston | |
Hardcover: 216
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(1975)
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36. Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays Volume One by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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(2001-06-28)
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Perfectly pleased
suggested reading
This volume is not complete!Do not buy it!
Schopenhauer's Claim to Fame Not everything S. writes about in this book (or for that matter any of his other books) is relevant or interesting or correct - you may want to skip his physical theory of colors, for example. But the reader does get a sense of the range and brilliance of his multilingual mind. Many of his thoughts are timeless and true everywhere in the world. S. caught my attention not because I'm interested in philosophy generally - I most certainly am not - but rather because he was one of Einstein's heroes, and Einstein is one of mine. Einstein loved to quote him, and apparently had his picture hanging in his office. Interestingly, Hitler also counted S. as his hero. The only book he took to the front as a soldier in the First World War was Schopenhauer's masterpiece, and later as Fuehrer he quoted S. in long, rambling paragraphs in his own table talk. One wouldn't normally expect much in common between the greatest mind who ever lived and this anti-intellectual warmonger. Hitler was an antisemite, so perhaps that's one reason why he was attracted to S. But S. was most liberal and generous in his misanthropic hatreds - one doesn't find him discriminate for or against any particular group. Perhaps Hitler didn't know about the far more damning things S. had to say about Germans? S. influenced many philosophers, such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, but I'm not familiar enough with philosophy to elaborate on this point. He also inspired many other creative minds who were not actually philosophers: Richard Wagner (a fanatical devotee to S. and to whom Hitler was also a fanatical devotee), Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Sir Winston Churchill (mentioned S. in his autobiography My Early Life), and the quantum physicist Erwin Schroedinger, among numerous others. (Notice that the last three were Nobel prizewinners?)Even the sharp-tongued and critical Wolfgang Pauli (another Nobel physicist) took him seriously.If you want to know why S. was so influential, then this is a good place to start. Parerga is easier to read than his other books, with the exception of his two essays on morality. Try to get Vol. I as well, but if you must choose, get Vol. II - it's longer and has a good index, and a good index is always useful in any book. Start with Parerga; then after you're familiar with his philosophy, move on to his main work.But don't forget his Essay on the Freedom on the Will - which stands alone as a real masterpiece in all philosophy, even more outstanding than his other works.
schopenhauer, pessimist good and undefeated |
37. The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion (Penguin Great Ideas) by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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Schopenhauer Introduction |
38. Manuscript Remains, Vol. 4: The Manuscript Books of 1830-1852 and Last Manuscripts by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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(1988-01-01)
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39. The Art of Literature and The Art of Controversy by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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40. Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga (The Incidentals) (Philosophical Classics) by Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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Fellow-masks and fellow-sufferers
This man was not a happy camper |
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