The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
$24.95
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2010
Summary
‘my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre’
Schopenhauer’s two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines, continuous with those in his major work The World as Will and Representation, are presented here in more accessible, self-contained form.
Schopenhauer argues, in uniquely powerf…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199297221 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199297223 |
| Author: | Arthur Schopenhauer, David Cartwright, Edward E. Erdmann, Christopher Janaway |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 243g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 129mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
Arthur Schopenhauer
David Cartwright has published widely on Schopenhauer. He has edited Payne’s translations of On the Will in Nature (1992) and On Vision and Colors (1994) for which he also wrote introductions. He is the author of numerous articles and has also published the Historical Dictionary of Schopenhauer’s Philosophy (2005).
Christopher Janaway is the author of Very Short Introduction to Schopenhauer (2002) and Self and World in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy (1989), and two edited collections: The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer (1999) and Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s Educator (1998). He has also translated the Two Fundamental Problems as part of the six-volume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Arthur Schopenhauer (2009).
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