Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
by Arthur Schopenhauer · first published 1819
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The German philosopher explains his thoughts about intellectual perception and abstract representation and critically analyzes Kant's ideas and teachings. Bibliogs.
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…the futility and hopelessness of existence. Borrowing from my background, one effective vaccination which spontaneously came up in my mind against rationalists sects described here, is Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung which can be read as a radical continuation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason which was trying to stress test the ratio itself. [To demonstrate the breadth of Bildung in even something like the physical…
on “Why are there so many rationalist cults?” ↗…in Europe during the third and fourth decade of the nineteenth century, Arthur Schopenhauer was delighted with the affinity they showed to his own philosophy. Having completed his main work Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung as early as 1818, he considered it an entirely new (and thus pure) expression of the wisdom once taught by the Buddha." I would have been gladder if the original article, by a professional…
on “The logic of Buddhist philosophy” ↗I read his magnum opus in college: The World as Will and Representation (in german, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung). It's quite long and dense, but essentially presents a kind of dualistic philosophy that doesn't necessarily need any kind of supernatural mechanisms. I don't necessarily subscribe to his beliefs or…
on “How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis” ↗