Ebook: Schopenhauer: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides For The Perplexed)

Arthur Schopenhauer is a widely read, admired and intriguing philosopher whose ideas have had a profound impact on some of the greatest minds of the last two centuries. He is known for his powerful but simple prose-style and a philosophy that tackles everyday life. Yet even the most sympathetic and intelligent reader of his works is likely to be perplexed by seeming inconsistencies and unconventional tone of a number of his major claims. Schopenhauer: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of Schopenhauer's philosophy, his major works and ideas, providing an ideal guide to t. Read more... A contemplative life -- The world as representation -- The world as will -- Suffering and pointlessness -- Aesthetics and the art -- Enigma of love -- A welcome to Eastern thought -- Ethics and eternal justice -- Death, philosophy, and after-life-- Denial and asceticism