Essays and Aphorisms,9780140442274

Essays and Aphorisms

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780140442274
ISBN10: 0140442278
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1973-05-30
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he published in 1851. These pieces depict humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world, in which art, morality and self - awareness are our only salvation. This innovative - and pessimistic - view has proved powerfully influential upon philosophy and art, directly affecting the work of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Wagner among others.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9(41)
ESSAYS
On the Suffering of the World
41(10)
On the Vanity of Existence
51(4)
On the Antithesis of Thing in Itself and Appearance
55(6)
On Affirmation and Denial of the Will to Live
61(5)
On the Indestructibility of our Essential Being by Death
66(11)
On Suicide
77(3)
On Women
80(9)
On Thinking for Yourself
89(6)
On Religion: a Dialogue
95(22)
APHORISMS
On Philosophy and the Intellect
117(16)
On Ethics
133(15)
On Law and Politics
148(7)
On Aesthetics
155(11)
On Psychology
166(14)
On Religion
180(18)
On Books and Writing
198(14)
On Various Subjects
212(25)
List of Correspondences 237

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