Ebook: The Philosophy of Schopenhauer

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. Jacquette explores the central topics in Schopenhauer's philosophy including his metaphysics of the world as representation and Will, his so-called pessimistic philosophical appraisal of the human condition, his examination of the concept of death, his dualistic analysis of free wi.;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.