The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
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- ~180,000 words · 862 passages
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- APAArthur Schopenhauer. (n.d.). The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/schopenhauer/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-2-of-3
- MLAArthur Schopenhauer. "The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/schopenhauer/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-2-of-3.
- ChicagoArthur Schopenhauer. The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/schopenhauer/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-2-of-3.
What it is about
The second volume: the work continued, with the passage from the world as representation to the world as will.
Context and history
This English translation spreads across three volumes what in German is two: the book of 1818 and the volume of supplements Schopenhauer added in 1844, twenty-six years later. The supplements are not minor appendices: they run as long as the original work, and his ideas are often better read there, since by then he is writing without having to persuade anyone of the architecture. He asked himself that the whole be read twice.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Containing the Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy, and the Supplements to the First and Part of the Second Book of Vol. I. “Paucis natus est, qui populum ætatis suæ cogitat.”—SEN. Sixth Edition London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. CONTENTS Appendix: Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy. Supplements to the First Book. First Half. The Doctrine Of The Idea Of Perception. (To § 1-7 of the First Volume.) Chapter I. The Standpoint of Idealism. Chapter II. The Doctrine of Perception or Knowledge Of The Understanding. Chapter III. On The Senses. Chapter IV. On Knowledge _A Priori_. Second Half. The Doctrine of the Abstract Idea, or Thinking. Chapter V. On The Irrational Intellect. Chapter VI. On The Doctrine of Abstract or Rational Knowledge. Chapter VII. On The Relation of the Concrete Knowledge of Perception to Abstract Knowledge. Chapter VIII. On The Theory Of The Ludicrous. Chapter IX. On Logic In General. Chapter X. On The Syllogism. Chapter XI. On Rhetoric. Chapter XII. On The Doctrine Of Science. Chapter XIII. On The Methods Of Mathematics. Chapter XIV. On The Association Of Ideas. Chapter XV. On The Essential Imperfections Of The Intellect. Chapter XVI. On The Practical Use Of Reason And On Stoicism. Chapter XVII. On Man’s Need Of Metaphysics. Supplements to the Second Book. Chapter XVIII. On The Possibility Of Knowing The Thing I
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