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These two important essays show Schopenhauer at his most
accessible, offering two self-contained and clearly argued
contributions to ethical theory, published here in a new
translation that preserves Schopenhauer's style in a lucid and
engaging way. This is also the only paperback edition to publish
both essays together. Schopenhauer argues, in uniquely powerful
prose, that self-consciousness gives the illusion of freedom and
that human actions are determined, but that we rightly feel guilt
because our actions issue from our essential individual character.
He locates moral value in the virtues of loving kindness and
voluntary justice that spring from the fundamental incentive of
compassion. Morality's basis is ultimately metaphysical, resting on
an intuitive identification of the self with all other striving and
suffering beings. The Introduction by leading Schopenhauer scholar
Christopher Janaway gives a clear summary of the argument of the
essays in the context of Schopenhauer's life and works and the
history of ethics in the modern period. The volume includes helpful
notes, up-to-date bibliography, and a full index.
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This volume of new translations unites three shorter works by
Arthur Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World
as Will and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he takes the
principle of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is
without a reason why it is, and shows how it covers different forms
of explanation or ground that previous philosophers have tended to
confuse. Schopenhauer regarded this study, which he first wrote as
his doctoral dissertation, as an essential preliminary to The World
as Will. On Will in Nature examines contemporary scientific
findings in search of corroboration of his thesis that processes in
nature are all a species of striving towards ends; and On Vision
and Colours defends an anti-Newtonian account of colour perception
influenced by Goethe's famous colour theory. This is the first
English edition to provide extensive editorial notes on the
different published versions of these works.
This volume of translations unites three shorter works by Arthur
Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World as Will
and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he takes the principle
of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is without a reason
why it is, and shows how it covers different forms of explanation
or ground that previous philosophers have tended to confuse.
Schopenhauer regarded this study, which he first wrote as his
doctoral dissertation, as an essential preliminary to The World as
Will. On Will in Nature examines contemporary scientific findings
in search of corroboration of his thesis that processes in nature
are all a species of striving towards ends; and On Vision and
Colours defends an anti-Newtonian account of colour perception
influenced by Goethe's famous colour theory. This is the first
English edition to provide extensive editorial notes on the
different published versions of these works.
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