Schopenhauer on the Character of the World : The Metaphysics of Will / John E. Atwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atwell, John E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Will.

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.

Schopenhauer, Arthur.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 224 p. )

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The most extensive English-language study of Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will yet published, this book represents a major contribution to Schopenhauer scholarship. Here, John E. Atwell critically but sympathetically examines the philosopher's main work, The World as Will and Representation, demonstrating that the philosophical system it puts forth does constitute a consistent whole. The author holds that this system is centered on a single thought, "The world is self-knowledge of the will." He then traces this unifying concept through the four books of The World as Will and Representation, and, in the process, dissolves the work's alleged inconsistencies.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

ONE. The Single Thought

TWO. From Perceptual Knowledge to Metaphysical Inquiry

THREE. From Science to Metaphysics

FOUR. From the Body to the Will

FIVE. From the Will to the Thing in Itself

SIX. From Nature to the Ideas

SEVEN. From the World to Salvation

CONCLUSION

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxx-xxx) and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520915152

0520915151

9780585221441

0585221448

OCLC:

1149446712