Schopenhauer: Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will

Informationen zum Autor Arthur Schopenhauer was born in 1788 (on February 22nd) in Gdansk and died in 1860 in Frankfurt (on September 20th). Klappentext New translation of Schopenhauer's brilliant and elegant essay on free will and determinism. Zusammenfassung This volume offers Schopenhauer's brilliant and elegant essay on free will and determinism in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F. J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together with a historical and philosophical introduction by Günter Zöller. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Definitions; 2. The will before self-consciousness; 3. The will before the consciousness of other things; 4. Predecessors; 5. Conclusion and higher view.

Product details

• Authors: Schopenhauer, Arthur Schopenhauer
• Assisted by: Gunter Zoller (Editor), E. F. J. Payne (Translation), Eric F. J. Payne (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.1999
• EAN: 9780521577663
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57766-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy; Cambridge Texts in the History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works