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Essays and Aphorisms

By R. J. Hollingdale , Arthur Schopenhauer

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
1973
ISBN
0140442278, 9780140442274
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3524333 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Pages
240\0
Time added
2013-12-23 07:40:21

Description

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.

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