Arthur Schopenhauer

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Essay on the Freedom of the Will (Roy...

Arthur Schopenhauer

The winning entry in a competition held by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences, Schopenhauer's 1839 essay brought its author international recognition. Its brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism elevated it ...

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Published: May 2005

Essays and Aphorisms (The Classics)

Arthur Schopenhauer

One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his ...

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Published: May 1973

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle...

Arthur Schopenhauer

Originally published in 1813, this early work by German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Originally published as his doctoral dissertation and then later re-published, it outline...

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Published: Jul 2011

On the Suffering of the World

Arthur Schopenhauer

On the Suffering of the World is a collection of the later aphoristic writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, known for their incisive, aphoristic style and dark, pessimistic view of human existence. Edited and with an introduction by Eug...

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Published: Nov 2020

The Basis of Morality

Arthur Schopenhauer

Persuasive and humane, this classic offers Schopenhauer's fullest examination of ethical themes. A defiance of Kant's ethics of duty, it proclaims compassion as the basis of morality and outlines a perspective on ethics in which passi...

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Published: Sep 2005

The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selec...

Arthur Schopenhauer

A new, comprehensive English anthologyWhat 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 que...

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Published: Nov 2010

The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and M...

Arthur Schopenhauer

First published in 1851, “The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims” is a collection of essays by famed German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. He is perhaps best known for his 1818 work “The World as Will and Repre...

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Published: Mar 2020

The World As Will and Representation:...

Arthur Schopenhauer

Volume 2 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in t...

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Published: Jun 1966

World as Will & Idea (Everyman's Lib...

Arthur Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the truest understanding of the world comes through art, and the only lasting good through ascetic renunciat...

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Published: May 1995
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