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The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical sources of this philosophical literature, in particular Plato's Phaedo and the Katha Upanishad and then proceeds to a sustained analysis and critical assessment of the sources and standpoints of a single thinker, Arthur Schopenhauer, whose work comprehensively pursues this problem. The book traces the pivotal issue of death through the whole range of Schopenhauer's writings uncovering the deeper con

Death. --- Contemplation. --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Contemplative orders --- Meditation --- Mysticism --- Prayer --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy --- Schopenhauer, Arthur, --- Shūpinhawar, Artūr, --- Шопенгауэр, Артур, --- Shopengauėr, Artur, --- Shu-pen-hua, --- Sopenaouer, --- Schopenhauer, Arturo, --- Schopenhauer, A. --- Schopenhauer, Artur, --- Шопенгауер, Артур, --- Shūpinhāvir, Ārtūr, --- Suʼu-pun-her, --- שאפענהויער, ארטור --- שאפענהויער, ארטור, --- שופנהאואר, ארתור, --- שופנהאואר, --- שופנהואר, ארתור --- ‏شوپنهاور، آرتور --- شوپنهاور، أرثر --- شوپنهور، أرثر --- 叔本华, --- 叔本華, --- Schopenhauer, Arthur --- Schopenhauer, Arthur, - 1788-1860.