Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation: Volume 1. Edited and Translated by Judith Norman, Alistair Welchman and Christopher Janaway

2011 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-303
Author(s):  
Dennis Vanden Auweele
Keyword(s):  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
The World

Boredom and Wonder in the Work of Arthur Schopenhauer

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-258
Author(s):  
Luke Wadhams ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
Single Feature ◽  
The World ◽  
Insight Into

This article examines Arthur Schopenhauer’s theory of boredom. In traditional interpretations of this theory, boredom is understood to be a form of suffering and a key component in Schopenhauer’s argument for the claim that all life is suffering. While such interpretations are correct, I argue that they only capture a single feature of the experience that Schopenhauer describes. Schopenhauer also understands boredom to occasion a unique insight into the nature of reality, and boredom should thereby additionally be thought of as an epistemically significant emotion. To elucidate this epistemic quality, I interpret Schopenhauer’s concept of boredom as revealing the miserable condition of the world, where such revelation compels one to wonder about the nature of this condition, thereby founding a philosophical attitude. Through an evaluation of Schopenhauer’s conceptions of boredom and wonder, I demonstrate that Schopenhauer ultimately conceives boredom as crucial for the development of a philosophical attitude toward existence.

scholarly journals A Metafisica da Vontade e as Ciências: um estudo em Schopenhauer sobre a natureza humana

2021 ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
RAMONN DE OLIVEIRA ALVES ◽  
FLÁVIO LUIZ DE CASTRO FREITAS ◽  
MICHELE ANGELO TINAGLI CASAROSA
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Scientific Training ◽  
The World

 O objetivo deste trabalho consiste em tentar explicitar uma possível relação entre o argumento do filósofo Arthur Schopenhauer acerca da natureza humana, à luz de sua metafísica da vontade, e aspectos das ciências empíricas, tomadas aqui enquanto base para uma filosofia imanente da natureza. Para tanto, algumas obras importantes foram adotadas como base deste estudo, tais como: O Mundo como Vontade e Representação e Sobre Vontade na Natureza. Inicialmente, procurou-se aproximar alguns elementos de sua formação científica e investigar como o autor utiliza os recursos das ciências da vida em sua metafísica, transferindo seus argumentos filosóficos para áreas de estudo como a fisiologia. Em seguida pretendeu-se com explorar uma espécie de argumento naturalista, à medida que adentra o panorama observacional do filósofo. O objetivo não é estabelecer uma defesa desta visão, mas compreender a dinâmica desta intelecção sobre natureza, o que permitirá examinar dimensões tanto do ponto de vista naturalista quanto existencial, intimamente relacionadas com a sujeição do homem a um princípio volitivo.Palavras-chave: Schopenhauer. Ciências. Metafísica. Natureza Humana. The Metaphysics of Will and The Sciences: a study in Schopenhauer on human natureABSTRACTThe objective of this paper is to try to explain a possible relationship between the argument of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer about human nature, in the light of his metaphysics of will, and aspects of the empirical sciences, taken here as the basis for an immanent philosophy of nature. Therefore, some important works were adopted as the basis for this study, such as: The World as Will and Representation and About Will in Nature. Initially, an attempt was made to bring together some elements of his scientific training and investigate how the author uses the resources of life sciences in his metaphysics, transferring his philosophical arguments to areas of study such as physiology. Then, it was intended to explore a kind of naturalist argument, as it enters the observational panorama of the philosopher. The objective is not to establish a defense of this vision, but to understand the dynamics of this understanding of nature, which will allow us to examine dimensions both from a naturalistic and an existential point of view, closely related to the subjection of man to a volitional principle.Keywords: Schopenhauer. Science. Metaphysics. Human Nature.

scholarly journals La intuición en la filosofía de Arthur Schopenhauer

2021 ◽  
Vol 137 (137) ◽  
pp. 6-29
Author(s):  
Clara Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Indian Thought ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The World

En el presente trabajo analizaremos el concepto de intuición, principalmente en relación con las tesis epistemológicas y metafísicas de la teoría schopenhaueriana. En la primera sección, plantearemos los ejes centrales del sistema metafísico de Schopenhauer, sobre todo en lo que concierne al concepto de voluntad  (Wille ) y la relación que este guarda con su teoría del conocimiento. Luego, examinaremos la diferencia que el filósofo alemán establece entre el conocimiento representativo —o mediado— de la razón y el conocimiento directo —o inmediato— de la intuición. Asimismo, trazaremos, en un primer momento, las tesis y los problemas fundamentales del dualismo propios de la representación y la voluntad, para establecer —en un segundo momento— el problema de la intuición del cuerpo propio. Por último, consideraremos los alcances y los límites de la intuición, así como también sus distintas variantes: principalmente la intuición estética y su culminación en la intuición mística. Palabras clave Schopenhauer, intuición, conocimiento inmediato, representación, estética Referencias Bergson, H. (2013). El pensamiento y lo moviente. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Cactus.Cross, T. (2013). Schopenhauer’s encounter with Indian thought. Representation and will,and their Indian parallels. Honolulu, Estados Unidos: University of Hawaii Press.Ferrari, J. (2011). L’art dans le monde comme volonté et comme représentation d’ArthurSchopenhauer. Mayenne, Francia: Presses Universitaires de France.François, A. (2004). La volonté chez Bergson et Schopenhauer. Methodos, (4), https://doi.org/10.4000/methodos.135.Foster, C. (1999). Ideas and imagination. Schopenhauer on the proper foundationof art. En C. Janaway (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer(pp. 213-251). Nueva York, Estados Unidos: Cambridge University Press.Gardner, S. (1999). Schopenhauer, will and the unconscious. En C. Janaway(ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer (pp. 375-421). Nueva York,Estados Unidos: Cambridge University Press.Glock, H. J. (1999). Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein: representation as languageand will. En C. Janaway (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer(pp. 422-458). Nueva York, Estados Unidos: Cambridge University Press.González Ríos, J. (2017). Schopenhauer. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Galerna.Guyer, P. (2007). Pleasure and knowledge in Schopenhauer’s aesthetics. En D.Jacquette (Ed.), Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts (pp. 109-132). NuevaYork, Estados Unidos: Cambridge University Press.Hannan, B. (2009). The riddle of the world. A reconsideration of Schopenhauer’s philosophy.Nueva York, Estados Unidos: Oxford University Press.Hume, D. (2002). Investigación sobre el conocimiento humano. Madrid, España: BibliotecaNueva.Janaway, C. (1989). Self and world in Schopenhauer’s philosophy. Nueva York, EstadosUnidos: Oxford University Press.Janaway, C. (1999a). Schopenhauer’s pessimism. En C. Janaway (Ed.), The CambridgeCompanion to Schopenhauer (pp. 318-343). Nueva York, Estados Unidos:Cambridge University Press.Janaway, C. (1999b). Introduction. En C. Janaway (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion toSchopenhauer (pp. 1-17). Nueva York, Estados Unidos: Cambridge University Press.Janaway, C. (2002). Schopenhauer. A very short introduction. Nueva York, EstadosUnidos: Oxford University Press.Kant, I. (2014). Crítica de la razón pura. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Colihue.Magee, B. (1983). The philosophy of Schopenhauer. Nueva York, Estados Unidos:Oxford University Press.Mann, T. (2018). Schopenhauer. París, Francia: Libella.                                                                                                  

Gottlob Ernst Schulzes skeptizistische Kant-Kritik in ihrer Relevanz für Arthur Schopenhauers Systemkonstitution

Kant-Studien ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-146
Author(s):  
Daniel Elon
Keyword(s):  
Transcendental Philosophy ◽  
Positive Answer ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
Pure Reason ◽  
Critique Of Pure Reason ◽  
The World

Abstract: In 1792, Gottlob E. Schulze published one of the most important treatises in the era of the early critical reception of Kant’s transcendental philosophy: the skeptical treatise Aenesidemus. One of Schulze’s later students was the young Arthur Schopenhauer, whose examination of Kant’s philosophy was significantly influenced by Schulze. In this paper, it shall be established that this influence isn’t limited solely to the details of Schopenhauer’s critique of Kantian thinking, but rather extends to the systematic unfolding of Schopenhauer’s philosophy as a whole. In this respect, Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation can be understood as a direct, positive answer to the questions left open by Schulze’s debate on the internal problems of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.

Reflections of an Existential Crisis in Søren Kierkegaard’s Aesthetic Conception

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Antanas Andrijauskas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Philosophy Of Art ◽  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
Abstract Thinking ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
The World ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Individual Human

This article considers the principles of philosophical thinking in Søren Kierkegaard’s nonclassical aesthetics. Special attention is given to his radical critique of “false” and “impersonal” rationalism. This does not only mean the rejection of the traditional principles of classical metaphysics which claims “universality” and “universal meaning.” Kierkegaard also bases his philosophy on individual human life, or, in other words, personal existence with its unique inner world. His critique is more profound than that by Arthur Schopenhauer. Kierkegaard develops his own philosophy of “existential crisis,” opposing subjective will and internal changes to abstract thinking and external influences. Kierkegaard’s works initiate the critical or nonclassical stage in Western aesthetics. The main place in it is occupied by the idea of the disharmony of the world: its subjective reflection is “split” consciousness that has lost contact with the traditional concepts of harmony, humanism, goodness, beauty and philosophy of art.

scholarly journals GRANDCOURT IN GEORGE ELIOT’S ‘DANIEL DERONDA’ AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 117-127
Author(s):  
Boris M. Proskurnin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Daniel Deronda ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Notion ◽  
Central Characters ◽  
First Time

For the first time in Russian studies of George Eliot, one of the central characters of her only novel about contemporary English life, Daniel Deronda, is under analysis. The character of Grandcourt is looked at as the writer’s distinctive reflection on her reading and comprehension of Arthur Schopenhauer’s book Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1818). The author of the essay gives the facts of the very serious, profound and critical reading of this book by George Eliot. The essay shows in what ways this kind of reading influences the ideological and artistic structures of the novel. It is specially demonstrated how George Eliot’s thorough knowing of Schopenhauer’s book and the thoughts this knowing generates reflects on the image of Grandcourt. It is stressed in the article that the character of Grandcourt is not simply to illustrate some passages of the philosophical system of the German thinker. It is argued that Schopenhauer’s concepts of Man, his role and place in the world cause George Eliot’s deep ontological thinking of human existence and its meaning; the German philosopher’s speculations lead Eliot to the indirect dialogue and dispute with Schopenhauer as it happens in some works by Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy and other authors of the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. The author of the article demonstrates artistic principles and means with the help of which George Eliot reconsiders the main notion of Schopenhauer’s system – Wille (Will), which transforms into rampage of subjectivity, unrestrained egoism and egotism, despotism, aggression, disdain of Other, moral violence and rapture of it, rejection of common sense and practical logic, the triumph of ‘nature’, seen merely as an instinct, deletion of such notions as self-analysis and self-criticism, human sympathy, compassion, friendship, love to others. Some special emphasis is put on Eliot’s arguing against Schopenhauer’s gender anthropology. It is stressed in the article that, parallel to ontological disagreement and with the help of this polemics, Eliot through the image of Grandcourt both ironically and dramatically sharpens some moral ill-being of contemporary English high society.

scholarly journals The notion of Māyā in Arthur Schopenhauer’s epistemological idealism

XLinguae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Christopher E. Koy
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Philosophical Account ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Persian Translation

The Hindu texts known as the Upaniṣads were written by many different people from approximately 900 B.C. to about 300 B.C. The Upaniṣads represent one of the earliest efforts of man at giving a philosophical account of the world. As such, the Upaniṣads are invaluable in the history of human thought. The writings came to the West in bits and pieces in the first half of the 19th century in Latin, English and German translation. Soon after he finished his doctoral dissertation in 1813, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), took note of the very first European-language translation (or rather a retranslation) of the Upaniṣads by Abraham Anquetil-Duperron, a Parisian Orientalist who had lived in or near India for six years and had mastered Persian. Anquetil-Duperron translated into Latin a Persian translation of fifty Upaniṣads from the original Sanskrit. This influential translation entitled Oupnek’hat (1802) held Schopenhauer’s great interest for the remainder of his life. Schopenhauer was one of the few serious philosophers who early on read and was profoundly interested in the philosophy coming out of the East in the first half of the 19th century. This contribution will examine his understanding of māyā and its role in Schopenhauer’s epistemology as revealed in his book The World as Will and Representation

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