The philosophy of Schopenhauer / Dale Jacquette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacquette, Dale.

Series:

Continental European philosophy.

Continental European philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.

Schopenhauer, Arthur.

Idealism.

Representation (Philosophy).

Will.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) crafted one of the most unified philosophical systems by synthesizing Plato, Kant, and Asian religious traditions such as Buddhism and Hinduism into an encyclopedic worldview that combines the empirical science of his day with Eastern mysticism in a radically idealist metaphysics and epistemology. In The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Dale Jacquette assesses Schopenhauer's philosophical enterprise and the astonishing implications it has for metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, logic, science, and religion. Jacquette analyses the central topics in Schopenhauer's philosophy, including his so-called pessimistic appraisal of the human condition, his examination of the concept of death, his dualistic analysis of free will, and his simplified non-Kantian theory of morality. His metaphysics of the world as representation and Will - his most important and controversial contribution - is discussed in depth. The legacy of Schopenhauer's ideas, in particular his influence on Nietzsche, who was first a follower and then an arch opponent, and the early Wittgenstein, is explored in the final chapter. This introduction makes even the most difficult of Schopenhauer's ideas accessible without sacrificing any of their complexity.

Contents:

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:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-53075-9

9786613843203

0-7735-8266-5

OCLC:

767670585