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Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Classics
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 writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many ...Show more
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Presentation by David Carus; Daniel Kolak; Richard Aquila; Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Longman Library of Primary Sources Ser.
This second volume of Schopenhauer's World as Will and Presentation is framed by a pedagogical structure designed to make this important work of philosophy more accessible and meaningful for undergraduates. With in-depth, user-friendly introductions, copious notes to clarify difficult or important passa ...Show more
Essay on the Freedom of the Will by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Critical Thinking
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 to a classic of Western philosophy, and its penetrating reflections st ...Show more
Essays and Aphorisms: Pocket Hardbacks by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
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 writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many ...Show more
Great Ideas: The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion by ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism. Throughout history, some books have changed the ...Show more
On Human Nature: Essays in Ethics and Politics by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Critical Thinking
A devout believer in the supremacy of will over intellect, Arthur Schopenhauer developed a metaphysical theory that influenced such thinkers as Nietzsche, Wagner, Wittgenstein, and Freud. These six essays are drawn from the chapters entitled "Zur Ethik" and "Zur Rechtslehre und Politik", which originate ...Show more
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
Suffering, Suicide and Immortality - Eight Essays from the Parerga by Arthur Schopenhauer; T. Bailey Saunders (Editor)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Arthur Schopenhauer is best known for his writings on pessimism. In this 1851 essay collection, he offers concise statements of the unifying principles of his thinking. Schopenhauer, unlike most philosophers, expressed himself in simple, direct ...Show more
The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from the World as Will and Representation and Other Works by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Critical Thinking
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. This title presents a collection of Schopenhauer's work.
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre'Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines, continuous with those in his ...Show more
The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Critical Thinking
A profound advocate for willpower and rational deliberation, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) believed that complete happiness and satisfaction are unobtainable. This essay from his final work, Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), examines how to discover the highest possible degree of pleasure and success, ...Show more
The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer; T. Saunders (Translator)
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Category: Critical Thinking
The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims was originally published under the title of Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit, in 1851. This edition contains the translations by Thomas Bailey Saunders, which were published separately under the titles The Essays of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life, and The Essays ...Show more