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The Philosophy of Schopenhauer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (320 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781844653560
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Philosophy of SchopenhauerDDC classification:
  • 193
LOC classification:
  • B3148 -- .J33 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A note on texts and terminology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Schopenhauer's life and times -- 1 Schopenhauer's idealism -- 2 Empirical knowledge of the world as representation: from natural science to transcendental metaphysics -- 3 Willing and the world as Will -- 4 Suffering, salvation, death, and renunciation of the will to life -- 5 Art and aesthetics of the beautiful and sublime -- 6 Transcendental freedom of Will -- 7 Compassion as the philosophical foundation of morality -- 8 Schopenhauer's legacy in the philosophy of Nietzsche, Heidegger and the early Wittgenstein -- Notes -- Bibliography and recommended reading -- Index.
Summary: Dale 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.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A note on texts and terminology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Schopenhauer's life and times -- 1 Schopenhauer's idealism -- 2 Empirical knowledge of the world as representation: from natural science to transcendental metaphysics -- 3 Willing and the world as Will -- 4 Suffering, salvation, death, and renunciation of the will to life -- 5 Art and aesthetics of the beautiful and sublime -- 6 Transcendental freedom of Will -- 7 Compassion as the philosophical foundation of morality -- 8 Schopenhauer's legacy in the philosophy of Nietzsche, Heidegger and the early Wittgenstein -- Notes -- Bibliography and recommended reading -- Index.

Dale 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.

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