A Companion to Schopenhauer (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
Language: English
Pages: 432
ISBN: 1119144809
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A Companion to Schopenhauer provides a comprehensive guide to all the important facets of Schopenhauer’s philosophy. The volume contains 26 newly commissioned essays by prominent Schopenhauer scholars working in the field today.
- A thoroughly comprehensive guide to the life, work, and thought of Arthur Schopenhauer
- Demonstrates the range of Schopenhauer’s work and illuminates the debates it has generated
- 26 newly commissioned essays by some of the most prominent Schopenhauer scholars working today reflect the very latest trends in Schopenhauer scholarship
- Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on Schopenhauer’s work
- Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of knowledge, perception, morality, science, logic and mathematics, Platonic Ideas, the unconscious, aesthetic experience, art, colours, sexuality, will, compassion, pessimism, tragedy, pleasure, and happiness
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide
The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism
A Philosophical Investigation of Rape (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)
An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics
The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves
loving, hating, hoping, desiring or striving, we are essentially will, and our actions are acts of “will objectified, i.e., translated into perception” (WWR I, 100). In fact, all bodily movements, not only those following a deliberate choice, but also involuntary movements, are objective manifestations of the will. Moreover, the whole phenomenal world, all empirical reality, is the outcome of will’s objectification. The will objectifies itself in grades or distinct stages. Some phenomena manifest
we attain through aesthetic contemplation and art, may yield the insight that our individual selves may not be as important as we happen to think from our narrow, bigoted perspectives, and add to our lives the deep tranquility, complete serenity and inner peace that so many of us long for but never attain – governed as our lives are by the principium individuationis and the sheer torments of the will to life: But we now turn our glance from our own needy and perplexed nature to those who have
the grave and familiar worries about the metaphysics of the will5 (about which the later Nietzsche is contemptuous, the early Nietzsche at best dubious, at worst duplicitous),6 let us note that there are two kinds of affirmation for Schopenhauer, reflective and unreflective, and that what is affirmed is the same in both cases: “this life … is now willed as such by the will with knowledge, consciously and deliberately, just as hitherto the will willed it without knowledge and as a blind impulse”
spoke as one who had had his own “Schopenhauer experience.” As a student of theology in Leipzig, Nietzsche came across a copy of WWR in a secondhand bookshop. “I do not know what sort of demon whispered to me, ‘Take this book home with you’” (Nietzsche 1966, Vol. III, 133). Back at home, Nietzsche threw himself onto the sofa, and began to allow “the dark, dynamic genius” of Schopenhauer to take effect. “Here, every line cried out renunciation, negation, resignation; here I found a mirror, in
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