Schopenhauer [Hardcover]

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• Focuses on the concept of the sublime as it clarifies Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory, moral theory and asceticism
  
• Explores the substantial relationships between Schopenhauer’s philosophy and Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity
  
• Defends Schopenhauer’s position that absolute truth can be known and described as a blindly striving, all-permeating, universal “Will”
  
• Examines the influence of Asian philosophy on Schopenhauer
  
• Describes the relationships between Schopenhauer’s thought and that of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein.

Acknowledgments.

Abbreviations.

Chapter One: The Philosophy of a Nonconformist (1788-1860).

I. The Unsettled Years: 1788-1831.

II. The Stable Years: 1833-1860.

Part I: Schopenhauer’s Theoretical Philosophy.

Chapter Two: Historical Background.

I. Mind-Dependent Qualities versus Mind-Independent Qualities.

II. Space and Time.

Chapter Three: The Principle of Sufficient Reason.

I. The Root of All Explanation.

II. The Four Basic Forms of Explanation.

Chapter Four: Schopenhauer’s Idealism and his Criticism of Kant.

I. The Rejection of a Mind-Independent Reality.

II. Kant’s Theory of Perception.

III. Kant’s Use of the Term “Object”.

IV. The Ll“.