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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer: Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings
Arthur Schopenhauer
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hardcover. These translations provide a comprehensive view of Schopenhauer's contribution to epistemology, theory of perception and philosophy of nature. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer. Num Pages: 558 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 230 x 34. Weight in Grams: 932. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer. 557 pages, 8 b/w illus. These new translations provide a comprehensive view of Schopenhauer's contribution to epistemology, theory of perception and philosophy of nature. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HPCD. Dimension: 159 x 230 x 34. Weight: 938.
This volume of translations unites three shorter works by Arthur Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World as Will and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he takes the principle of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is without a reason why it is, and shows how it covers different forms of explanation or ground that previous philosophers have tended to confuse. Schopenhauer regarded this study, which he first wrote as his doctoral dissertation, as an essential preliminary to The World as Will. On Will in Nature examines contemporary scientific findings in search of corroboration of his ... Read more
This volume of translations unites three shorter works by Arthur Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World as Will and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he takes the principle of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is without a reason why it is, and shows how it covers different forms of explanation or ground that previous philosophers have tended to confuse. Schopenhauer regarded this study, which he first wrote as his doctoral dissertation, as an essential preliminary to The World as Will. On Will in Nature examines contemporary scientific findings in search of corroboration of his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
557
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Series
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer
Condition
New
Weight
932g
Number of Pages
558
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521872713
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V9780521872713
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About Arthur Schopenhauer
David E. Cartwright is a Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies and the chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. He has numerous publications in nineteenth-century German philosophy and has edited and translated a number of Schopenhauer's books, most recently, with Edward E. Erdmann, The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (2010); and ... Read more
Reviews for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer: Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings
'This new translation of three of Schopenhauer's essays is of a very high quality and is testament to the customary rigor of the Cambridge Translations. Undoubtedly, this new edition will become in time the standard work of reference for English-speaking scholars worldwide.' Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger ...it's a pleasure to welcome the latest volume from the Cambridge University Press uniform series ... Read more