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Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work. Conceived and published before the philosopher was 30 and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought.
For 70 years, the only unabridged English translation of this work was the Haldane-Kemp collaboration. In 1958, a new translation by E. F. J. Payne appeared that decisively supplanted the older one. Payne's translation is superior because it corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the Haldane-Kemp translation, and it is based on the definitive 1937 German edition of Schopenhauer's work prepared by Dr. Arthur Hübscher. Payne's edition is the first to translate into English the text's many quotations in half a dozen languages. It is thus the most useful edition for the student or teacher.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nació en Danzig en 1788. Hijo de un próspero comerciante, la muerte prematura de su padre le liberó de dedicarse a los negocios y le procuró un patrimonio que le permitió vivir de las rentas, pudiéndose consagrar de lleno a la filosofía. Fue un hombre solitario y metódico, de carácter irascible y de una acentuada misoginia. Enemigo personal y filosófico de Hegel, despreció siempre el Idealismo alemán y se consideró a sí mismo como el verdadero continuador de Kant, en cuyo criticismo encontró la clave para su metafísica de la voluntad. Su pensamiento no conoció la fama hasta pocos años después de su muerte, acaecida en Fráncfort en 1860. Schopenhauer ha pasado a la historia como el filósofo pesimista por excelencia. Admirador de Calderón y Gracián, tradujo al alemán el «Oráculo manual» del segundo. Hoy es uno de los clásicos de la filosofía más apreciados y leídos debido a la claridad de su pensamiento. Sus escritos marcaron hitos culturales y continúan influyendo en la actualidad. En esta misma Editorial han sido publicadas sus obras «Metafísica de las costumbres» (2001), «Diarios de viaje. Los Diarios de viaje de los años 1800 y 1803-1804» (2012), «Sobre la visión y los colores seguido de la correspondencia con Johann Wolfgang Goethe» (2013), «Parerga y paralipómena» I (2.ª ed., 2020) y II (2020), «El mundo como voluntad y representación» I (2.ª ed., 2022) y II (3.ª ed., 2022) y «Dialéctica erística o Arte de tener razón en 38 artimañas» (2023).
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Schopenhauer's World as Will and Idea describes a philosophical world view which shares various aspects of thought with Kant and Plato, among others. The first volume consists of four books, and is around 530 pages. The first book describes the world as consisting of idea. This gives a very idealist interpretation of reality, but one which is more sophisticated than the Idealist philosophy of Berkeley, for example. The second book describes the world as being will, will being found in objects as well as living beings, but differing only in magnitude and not nature. This in places sounds mystic, giving inanimate particles a striving that sounds like a weaker version of our own; this can equally be read from the opposite angle, that human and animal life can be explained in a reductionist manner by movement of particles. The will of Schopenhauer is in some respects similar to the ?lan vital of Bergson.The third book mainly concerns Idea, and discusses aesthetics, relating art to the Platonic Idea. This has been done in a similar fashion before, but it is treated well, and integrates with the rest of the system. Music is also discussed, but this reaches us directly through will, not involving idea. This I found to be the most convincing book of the four.The fourth book is mainly on will, and discusses the implications of the philosophical system on ethics. His system is found to be compatible with the Buddhism and Hinduism, and also Christianity, but not Judaism or Islam. The first two books are used to present to the reader the philosophical system, and the last two books give the practical implications of this. I found the book to be more engaging and readable than Kant, and an improvement on earlier Idealist works. Matter is hardly mentioned at all throughout the book, though it isn't denied, ?the-thing-in-itself?, (a borrowing from Kant), is used to refer to what lies behind what we see, and is described as only being knowable through its two forms ? will and idea.
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