Philosophical Writings Arthur Schopenhauer [Paperback]

As composer Richard Wagner noted, with Schopenhauer one may finally give voice to the secretly held belief that the world is bad. This blunt honesty was Schopenhauer's trademark. Perhaps no philosopher equaled him in relatinf metaphysical speculation to the seemingly random events of everyday life. This volume includes On Thinking for Oneself, On the Affirmation of the Will-to-Live, On Suicide, The World as Will: Second Aspect, On the Fundamental View of Idealism, On the Metaphysics of Music, The Foundation of Ethics, and other essential writings.

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Introduction: Wolfgang Schirmacher
Translated by Virginia Cutrufelli

Chronology

Works on Schopenhauer

PART 1

1. On Thinking for Oneself

2. On the Affirmation of the Will-to-Live

3. Additional Remarks on the Doctrine of the Vanity of Existence

4. Additional Remarks on the Doctrine of the Suffering of the World

5. On Suicide

6. On the Fundamental View of Idealism

Part 2

7. On the Will in Nature

8. On Genius

9. On the Inner Nature of Art

10. On History
11. On the Metaphysics of Music

12. The World as Will: Second Aspect

Part 3

13. The Foundation of Ethics

14. Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

15. On Death and Its Relation to the Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature

16. Manuscript Remains

All Translated by E.F. J. Payne