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The riddle of the world : a reconsideration of Schopenhauer's philosophy / Barbara Hannan.
LIBRA B3148 .H36 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hannan, Barbara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 160 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 A Sketch of Schopenhauer's Central Ideas 3
- A Neglected Genius 3
- The Fourfold Root 4
- Transcendental Idealism and the Metaphysics of Will 8
- Freedom, Determinism, and the Will 25
- The Basis of Ethics: Reason versus Compassion 33
- 2 Three Major Themes of Schopenhauer's Philosophy: Transcendental Idealism, Panpsychism, and Determinism 35
- Kant's Epistemology 35
- Schopenhauer's Version of Idealism and His Evaluation of Kant 44
- Why I Am Not an Idealist 48
- A Suggestion 50
- Schopenhauer's Panpsychism and Its Philosophical Ancestry 51
- Objections to Panpsychism Considered 57
- Causal Power as Metaphysically Basic 59
- Determinism and Responsibility 62
- Quantum Mechanics 67
- 3 Schopenhauer's Anti-Kantian Account of Morality 71
- Kantian Ethics: Its Appeal and Its Puzzling Aspects 71
- Schopenhauer Reads Kant's Ethics 84
- Compassion as the Basis of Ethics 91
- Evaluative Remarks 93
- Wittgenstein's Ethical View and Its Schopenhauerian Roots 95
- 4 Schopenhauer's Aesthetics: The Meaning of Art and Music 102
- Schopenhauer's Aesthetic Theory in General 102
- Schopenhauer's Theory of Music in Particular 111
- The Character of Genius 115
- Summary of My Suggestions 118
- 5 Pessimism, Depression, and Salvation 119
- Pessimism as a Philosophical Orientation 120
- Optimism and Pessimism as Personality Traits 126
- The Danger of the Attribution Fallacy 127
- Depression and the Psychological Roots of Pessimism 128
- Salvation as Recovery from Depression 133
- Schopenhauer on the "Acquired Character" 135
- Salvation as Denial of the Will 138
- Now That My Ladder's Gone 141.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195378931
- 0195378938
- 9780195378948
- 0195378946
- OCLC:
- 237885190
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