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," ...
Schopenhauer did not want to be a "conjuror of ideas" (Volker Spierling), but instead to return to "the only living source of perception,” without falling into a naive empiricism. Schopenhauer belonged to post-Kantian philosophy and ...
... vorher für die Stuttgarter Tagung verpflichtet , die in unmittelbarem Anschluß an die von der Schweizer Philosophischen Gesellschaft veranstaltete Gedenkfeier stattfand . I. Meine erste Pflicht ist es , den Veranstaltern dieser ...
Dating from her years as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, this is the 1926-27 diary of the teenager who would become the famous French philosopher, author, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir.
Although his reputation has bordered on notoriety, Nietzsche's influence has unquestionably not diminished with time, and our fascination with him will be further fed by the publication of this volume. > Over a hundred years have elapsed ...
This volume contains selections of Ockham's philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and ethics.
Covers topics such as Concerning Metaphysics, Man's Knowledge of God, The Existence of God, The Unicity of God, Concerning Human Knowledge, and The Spirituality and Immortality of the Human Soul.
She is typically portrayed as a mere intellectual follower of her companion, Jean-Paul Sartre. In Philosophical Writings, Beauvoir herself shows that nothing could be further from the truth.
Francis Hutcheson has long been celebrated for his moral philosophy, which greatly influenced David Hume and other thinkers of the Enlightenment. This volumn provides a rounded compilation of all aspects of his thought.