Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings

Arthur Schopenhauer author Christopher Janaway editor David E Cartwright editor Edward E Erdmann editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Oct '15

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These translations provide a comprehensive view of Schopenhauer's contribution to epistemology, theory of perception and philosophy of nature.

On the Fourfold Root, translated here in a readable and scholarly edition, is an essential preliminary to Schopenhauer's great book The World as Will and Representation. In the companion works Schopenhauer defends his idea that all nature is an expression of will and attacks Newton's account of colour perception.This volume of translations unites three shorter works by Arthur Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World as Will and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he takes the principle of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is without a reason why it is, and shows how it covers different forms of explanation or ground that previous philosophers have tended to confuse. Schopenhauer regarded this study, which he first wrote as his doctoral dissertation, as an essential preliminary to The World as Will. On Will in Nature examines contemporary scientific findings in search of corroboration of his thesis that processes in nature are all a species of striving towards ends; and On Vision and Colours defends an anti-Newtonian account of colour perception influenced by Goethe's famous colour theory. This is the first English edition to provide extensive editorial notes on the different published versions of these works.

'This new translation of three of Schopenhauer's essays is of a very high quality and is testament to the customary rigor of the Cambridge Translations. Undoubtedly, this new edition will become in time the standard work of reference for English-speaking scholars worldwide.' Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger

ISBN: 9781107559578

Dimensions: 230mm x 153mm x 30mm

Weight: 820g

558 pages