Schopenhauer''s Fourfold Root

This collection of essays is one of the first critical engagements with On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Chapters by leading Schopenhauer scholars examine the possible interpretations of the principle of rational thought and argue for a new, Kantian-inspired formulation and critical reach of that principle.

List of contents

Introduction
Jonathan Head and Dennis Vanden Auweele

Part I: The Historical Context of Fourfold Root

1. Schopenhauer's Metaphilosophy: How to Think a World Without Reason
Sebastian Gardner

2. The Fivefold Rood of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Eric v.d. Luft

Part II: (Transcendental) Idealism in and Beyond the Fourfold Root

3. Idealism in Fourfold Root

Joanthan Head

4. "The World Knot": Schopenhauer's Early Account of the Subject of Knowing and Willing in the Historic and Systematic Context of German Idealism
Günter Zöller

5. Schopenhauer's Early Fourfold Root and the Ghost of Kantian Freedom
Sandra Shapshay

6. 'A Most Beloved Piece of Nonsense': The Ontological Argument and Metaphysics
Dennis Vanden Auweele

Part III: Consciousness and Sensation in Fourfold Root

7. Who Gets the Best of the Winged Cherub?: Reid and Schopenhauer Confront Early Modern Anglicanism
Graham McAleer

8. Idea and Concept in Schopenhauer: From the Early Manuscripts to the World as Will and Representation
Marco Casucci

9. Schopenhauer on Perception, Consciousness, and Self-awareness
Luis de Sousa

10. Beyond the Principle of Sufficient Reason?: Schopenhauer's Aesthetic Phenomenology
Bart Vandenabeele

Part IV: Ethics, Motivation and Action

11 The Fourth Root and 'the Miracle par Excellence'
Gudrun von Tevenar and Christine Lopes

12 Kant's Theory of Freedom in Fourfold Root as the Progenitor of Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Will
Robert Wicks

About the author

Jonathan Head is Teaching Fellow at Keele University, UK. He has recently published papers on Kant's philosophy of religion and various aspects of Schopenhauer's philosophy.

Dennis Vanden Auweele is postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy, KU Leuven (University of Leuven) and assistant professor in philosophy of religion at the Faculty of Theology, RUG (University of Groningen). His publications deal mostly with Kant's philosophy of religion, Schopenhauer's philosophy and contemporary philosophy of religion.

Summary

This collection of essays is one of the first critical engagements with On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Chapters by leading Schopenhauer scholars examine the possible interpretations of the principle of rational thought and argue for a new, Kantian-inspired formulation and critical reach of that principle.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan (Keele University Head, Jonathan Vanden Auweele Head
• Assisted by: Jonathan Head (Editor), Head Jonathan (Editor), Dennis Vanden Auweele (Editor), Vanden Auweele Dennis (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367876890
• ISBN: 978-0-367-87689-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Idealism, Idealism, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge