Schopenhauer: Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will
Schopenhauer author Eric F J Payne translator Günter Zöller editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:22nd Apr '99
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New translation of Schopenhauer's brilliant and elegant essay on free will and determinism.
This volume offers Schopenhauer's brilliant and elegant essay on free will and determinism in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F. J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together with a historical and philosophical introduction by Günter Zöller.Written in 1839 and chosen as the winning entry in a competition held by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences, Schopenhauer's Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will marked the beginning of its author's public recognition and is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism. Schopenhauer distinguishes the freedom of acting from the freedom of willing, affirming the former while denying the latter. He portrays human action as thoroughly determined but also argues that the freedom which cannot be established in the sphere of human action is preserved at the level of our innermost being as individuated will, whose reality transcends all dependency on outside factors. This volume offers the text in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F. J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together with a historical and philosophical introduction by Günter Zöller.
"Recommended for large university and public libraries; accessible to general readers, upper-division undergraduates, and above." Choice
ISBN: 9780521571418
Dimensions: 236mm x 156mm x 15mm
Weight: 360g
144 pages