TY - BOOK ID - 135849883 TI - The philosophy of Schopenhauer PY - 2005 SN - 1315712288 1317494482 1282921576 9786612921575 1844653560 9781844653560 9781317494485 184465009X 9781844650095 9781315712284 9781282921573 6612921579 1844650081 9781844650088 184465009X 9781844650095 PB - Chesham [England] : Acumen, DB - UniCat KW - Schopenhauer, Arthur, KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135849883 AB - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) crafted one of the most comprehensive philosophical systems the world has ever seen. He weaved together the ideas of Plato, Kant and Asian religions into an encyclopedic worldview that combines the empirical science of his day with Eastern mysticism in a radically idealist metaphysics and epistemology. In The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Dale Jacquette assesses Schopenhauer's philosophical enterprise and the astonishing array of implications it has for metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of logic, science and religion. Jacquette provides clear exposition and analysis of the central topics in Schopenhauer's philosophy including his so-called pessimistic philosophical appraisal of the human condition, his examination of the concept of death, his dualistic analysis of free will, and his simplified non-Kantian theory of morality. His metaphysics of the world as representation and Will; his most important and controversial contribution to philosophy; is discussed in depth and the arguments by which he hopes to prove that thing-in-itself is Will are evaluated. The legacy of Schopenhauer's ideas, and in particular his influence on Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, is explored in the final chapter. ER -