On the Vanity of Existence From Essays Arthur Schopenhauer.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Parerga and Paralipomena Short Philosophical Essays Volume 1 translated and edited by SABINE ROEHR CHRISTOPHER JANAWAY with an Introduction by.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860), was an important German philosopher of the 19th Century. He profoundly affected Friedrich Nietzsche, and was among the first to contend that at its center, the universe is not a rational place. He was inspired by Plato and Immanuel Kant.

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Twenty years after the publication of the first edition of his main work, The World as Will and Idea, Schopenhauer submitted his prize essay On the Freedom of the Will to the Norwegian Scientific Society. While this essay won the offered prize in 1839, Schopenhauer's second contribution to the subject of ethics, The Foundation of Morality, was denied the prize of the Royal Danish Academy of.

This essay focuses on Schopenhauer’s aesthetics and philosophy of art, areas of his philosophy which have attracted the most philosophical attention in recent years.

Our choice of misogyny (along with misandry and misanthropy) as the organizing topic for this collection, which originally appeared as a special issue of Representations, calls for some explanation.Certainly we did not imagine that the essays collected herein would discover misogyny.

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Roberto Calasso - deconstructing mythology: a reading of Le nozze.

Essays in Modern Theology and Related Subjects: Gathered and Published as a Testimonial to Charles Augustus Briggs, D.D., D. Litt., Graduate Professor of Theological Encyclopaedia and Symbolics in the Union Theological Seminary in the City of.

Tragedy, Schopenhauer as Educator, and other early writings unpublished during his lifetime, Nietzsche returned again and again to the idea of philosophy as something inseparable from humanlife and also as a unique way of humanlife that needed to be defended in a world at best ambivalent toward and at worst inimical to philosophy. Nietzsche also held that life was the true test of a philosophy.

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