The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
Arthur Schopenhauer author Christopher Janaway editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:27th Mar '14
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This translation is the first English edition to reunite Schopenhauer's two major essays on ethics in one volume.
This is the first English edition of Arthur Schopenhauer's The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (1841) to re-unite both essays in one volume. It offers a new translation by Christopher Janaway, together with an introduction and editorial notes on Schopenhauer's vocabulary and the different editions of his essays.Arthur Schopenhauer's The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (1841) consists of two groundbreaking essays: 'On the Freedom of the Will' and 'On the Basis of Morals'. The essays make original contributions to ethics and display Schopenhauer's erudition, prose-style and flair for philosophical controversy, as well as philosophical views that contrast sharply with the positions of both Kant and Nietzsche. Written accessibly, they do not presuppose the intricate metaphysics which Schopenhauer constructs elsewhere. This is the first English translation of these works to re-unite both essays in one volume. It offers a new translation by Christopher Janaway, together with an introduction, editorial notes on Schopenhauer's vocabulary and the different editions of his essays, a chronology of his life, a bibliography, and a glossary of names.
ISBN: 9781107414747
Dimensions: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 450g
334 pages