On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Schopenhauer, Arthur

ISBN 10: 1409924378 / ISBN 13: 9781409924371

Edité par Dodo Press., USA., 2008

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Softcover 2008, edition. Text and covers in fine condition. Binding firm. A few sentences underlined. (160 pages).

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• Titre: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
• Éditeur: Dodo Press., USA.
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1409924378
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781409924371
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Authors
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. He responded to and expanded upon Immanuel Kant s philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world. His critique of Kant, his creative solutions to the problems of human experience and his explication of the limits of human knowledge are among his most important achievements. His metaphysical theory is the foundation of his influential writings on psychology, aesthetics, ethics, and politics which influenced Friedrich Nietzsche, Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sigmund Freud and others. He said he was influenced by the Upanishads, Immanuel Kant, and Plato. References to Eastern philosophy and religion appear frequently in his writing. He appreciated the teachings of the Buddha and even called himself a Buddhaist. He said that his philosophy could not have been conceived before these teachings were available. He called himself a Kantian. He formulated a pessimistic philosophy that gained importance and support after the failure of the German and Austrian revolutions of 1848.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Schopenhauer's doctoral dissertation, wherein he elaborates upon the Principle of Sufficient Reason first expounded in ancient Greek philosophy, is published here complete.

The Principle of Sufficient Reason posits that everything that ever happens has a reason or root cause. It is by drawing both upon the principle's ancient origins, and basing his theory upon Immanuel Kant's theory of knowledge, that Schopenhauer - in his own view - completed the epistemological parts of Kantian thought left undone or insufficiently concluded.

Although Schopenhauer expanded his philosophical theories as he matured, he would frequently refer his readers and students back to this original dissertation as a starting point. Over time however, On the Fourfold Root has faded into relative obscurity, with Schopenhauer's later, lengthier works eclipsing its significance.

The four classes of reason are as follows:

Becoming; over time, an object gains time and space and is thus able to be perceived, interpreted, evaluated and judged.

Knowing; all past judgments, together with conceptions established via the use of reason, make up the basis of the known.

Being; separated into two categories; firstly time is explained as an inner sense, pertaining to the temporal and secondly, space pertains to the spatial occupancy of the subject.

Willing; the perceiving, knowing, subject may be able to perceive itself as a force of will - however this process takes action, and time, to establish itself.

The translation to English, by German author Karl Hillebrand, is the classic. This edition is based upon the fourth edition, which was originally published in 1903.