The philosophy of Schopenhauer /
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) crafted one of the most unified philosophical systems by synthesizing Plato, Kant, and Asian religious traditions such as Buddhism and Hinduism into an encyclopedic worldview that combines the empirical science of his day with Eastern mysticism in a radically idealist...
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| Language: | English |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2005
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| Series: | Continental European philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
