Beschreibung:
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
Introduction; Chapter One Schopenhauer's idealism; Chapter Two Empirical knowledge of the world as representation: from natural science to transcendental metaphysics; Chapter Three Willing and the world as Will; Chapter Four Suffering, salvation, death, and renunciation of the will to life; Chapter Five Art and aesthetics of the beautiful and sublime; Chapter Six Transcendental freedom of Will; Chapter Seven Compassion as the philosophical foundation of morality; Chapter Eight Schopenhauer's legacy in the philosophy of Nietzsche, Heidegger and the early Wittgenstein;