Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 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
- 8 Schopenhauer's legacy in the philosophy of Nietzsche, Heidegger and the early Wittgenstein
- Notes
- Bibliography and recommended reading
- Index
Notes
- Frontmatter
- 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
- 8 Schopenhauer's legacy in the philosophy of Nietzsche, Heidegger and the early Wittgenstein
- Notes
- Bibliography and recommended reading
- Index
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- The Philosophy of Schopenhauer , pp. 265 - 280Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2005