ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860) was a German philosopher who was primarily important as the exponent of a metaphysical doctrine of the will in immediate reaction against Hegelian idealism.
He is best known for THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION (1819, expanded 1844) -- here presented in 4 translations -- in which he claimed that our world is driven by a fundamentally dissatisfied will, continually seeking satisfaction. Proceeding from the transcendental idealism of Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism. He was among the first thinkers in Western philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Eastern philosophy (e.g., asceticism, the world-as-appearance), having initially arrived at similar conclusions as the result of his own philosophical work.
Though his work failed to garner substantial attention during his life, Schopenhauer has had a posthumous impact across various disciplines, including philosophy, literature, and science. His writing on aesthetics, morality, and psychology exerted important influence on thinkers and artists throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as indicated:
* Art of Controversy & Other Posthumous Papers (Swan Sonnenschein, 1896). Translated by T.B. Saunders. -- PDF
* Art of Literature, The (Macmillan, 1891). Translated by T.B. Saunders. -- PDF
* Basis of Morality, The (Swan Sonnenschein, 1903). Translated by A.B. Bullock. -- PDF
* Collected Essays (Halcyon, 2010) -- ePUB
* Collected Works (Delphi Classics, 2013). Various translators. -- ePUB
* Essays and Aphorisms (Penguin Classics, 2004). Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. -- ePUB
* Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, 8 vols. (Penn State Electronic Classics, 2004-2013). Translated by T.B. Saunders (vols. 1-7) and Mrs. Rudolf Dircks (vol. 8). -- PDF
* Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Duke Classics, 2012). Translated by Sara Hay Dircks. -- ePUB
* Essential Schopenhauer, The (HarperCollins, 2010). Edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher. -- ePUB
* Horrors and Absurdities of Religion (Penguin, 2009). Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. -- ePUB
* On Human Nature (Allen & Unwin, 1913). Translated by T. Bailey Saunders. -- PDF
* On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason & Other Writings (Cambridge, 2015). Translated by David E. Cartwright et al. -- ePUB
* On the Suffering of the World (Penguin, 2004). Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. -- ePUB
* On Vision and Colors (Princeton, 2010). Translated by Georg Stahl. -- ePUB + PDF
* Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays (Clarendon, 1974). 2 volumes. Translated by E. F. J. Payne. -- PDF
* Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays (Cambridge, 2014). 2 volumes. Translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. -- ePUB
* Religion: A Dialogue & Other Essays (Swan Sonnenschein, 1889). Translated by T.B. Saunders. -- PDF
* Studies in Pessimism (George Allen, 1913). Translated by T. Bailey Saunders. -- PDF
* Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (Cambridge, 2009). Translated by Christopher Janaway. -- PDF
* Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (Oxford WC, 2010). Translated by David Cartwright and Edward Erdmann. -- ePUB + PDF
* Will to Live: Selected Writings (Continuum, 1988). Edited by Richard Taylor. -- PDF
* Wisdom of Life, The (Dover, 2004). Translated by T.B. Saunders. -- ePUB
* World as Will and Presentation, 2 vols. (Routledge, 2016). Translated by Richard Aquila and David Carus. -- ePUB
* World as Will and Representation, Volume 1 (Cambridge, 2010). Translated by Judith Norman, Alistair Welchman and Christopher Janaway. (NOTE: Vol. 2 is not yet published.) -- PDF
* World as Will and Representation, 2 vols. (Dover, 1969). Translated by E. F. J. Payne. -- PDF + ePUB
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