Philosophical Writings

  • Philosophical Writings: Arthur Schopenhauer
    By Wolfgang Schirmacher

    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," ...

  • Philosophical Writings: Arthur Schopenhauer
    By Arthur Schopenhauer

    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 ...

  • Philosophical Writings
    By Paul Tillich

    ... 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 ...

  • Philosophical Writings
    By Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons

    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.

  • Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche
    By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    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 ...

  • Philosophical Writings: A Selection
    By William, William of Ockham

    This volume contains selections of Ockham's philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and ethics.

  • Philosophical Writings: A Selection
    By John Duns Scotus, Johannes Duns Scotus

    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.

  • Philosophical Writings
    By Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Simons

    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.

  • Philosophical Writings
    By Francis Hutcheson

    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.