Indeed, his argument that optimism is actually a deeply wicked position to hold is irrefutable.

Please try your request again later.Le Monde comme volonté et comme représentation (French Edition).Kindle est une merveilleuse invention. What is here is more than enough to understand Schopenhauer’s philosophy of will. Not individual will, but this sort of ominous Will of the universe. September 8th 2004 Read 62 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.

The place to start, obviously, was his magnum opus, The World as Will and Representation, a copy of which I'd picked up in the town of Leeds in the Hudson valley in New York.There's plenty about the content of Schopenhauer's work here on Goodreads and elsewhere online - I won't add to it. In general it is a strange demand on a moralist that he should commend no other virtue than that which he himself possesses.”,Readers’ Top Histories and Biographies of the Last 5 Years. Well, I hoppe to read it one more before I die and maybe that'll be OK. Preferably preceeded by some serious Kant. This is my second time reading this massive, ambiotious & important work. Like in the Hindi teachings Schopenhauer suggests that his work illustrates the importance of Removing the veil of Ma.Definitely a worth while read! Le monde comme volonté et comme représentation book. Another commenter in this thread used the word 'cynicism' to describe Schopenhauer's thought - there are many cynics in the history of philosophy; Schopenhauer is not one of them. The only reason I can see reading all three volumes of the unabridged work is when one wants to hang on Schopenhauer’s every word like Schopenhauer does himself. Please try again.There was a problem loading your book clubs.

If nothing else, this work inspires one to look up and read the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita (or Vedanta) and other Hindi works for a better understanding of Schopenhauer's inspiration.Typical nearly indecipherable German philosopher. I really enjoyed the idealism of the will as that which is the thing in itself and the idea the objectification of it. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. I haven't read any of his other works so maybe there is more truth to be found there than in 'The World as Will and Representation'.

I will not attempt write a review of this and will simply say that you will have lived a more impoverished life not having read any Schopenhauer.my favorite part in schopenhauer is his discussion of music, in which he qualifies leibnitz's aphorism that music is "an unconscious exercise in arithmetic whereby the mind does not know it is counting" with the claim that music is "the unconscious exercise in metaphysics in which the mind does not know it is philosophizing"... i also like it when he draws parallels between indian philosophy and descartes.Amazing, many answers to be found by reading Schopenhauer!What a crabby old fart.

Aujourd’hui, je les retrouve pour trois fois rien et le tout tient dans un espace virtuel.Aucune mise en page, pas de pagination ni de traduction des locutions grecques ou latines... déplorable.Ce livre est un chef-d'œuvre. Read "Le Monde comme volonté et comme représentation (Volumes 1 à 5 - L'édition intégrale) Épistémologie, Métaphysique, Esthétique, Éthique - Une explication complète du monde par les concepts de Volonté (principe cosmique) et de Représentation (les fonctions mentales)" by Arthur Schopenhauer …
I'd read all of Jung and all of Kant and Nietzsche cited or owned by Jung. Although I don't feel that Schopenhauer's view of reality is in fact accurate, I highly recommend that one read this work as it is cited very often in various other works and it is indeed interesting to consider and study. Schopenhauer was free from both financial necessity and academic imperatives, and so he described in his books the world just as he saw and felt it without worrying about pleasing an audience - he was passionately committed to what is true.

After reading all too many postmodern philosophers (Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, etc.) There were a couple of things in this volume I found interesting like his statement that suffering is essential to life and that there is no knowledge without a knower present. Please try again.There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Le Monde comme volonté et comme représentation (French Edition). What is here is more than enough to understand Schopenhauer’s philosophy of will. Le secret du Monde comme volonté et comme représentation est révélé dans son dernier paragraphe ; auparavant, il aura fallu parcourir un millier de pages qui laissent songeur… reflets de la modificati 11 critiques sur ce livre. The World as Will and Idea is nothing if not a passionately sincere work. This time.From p. 62 of my edition: "every one who does not wish to remain uncultured, and ot be numbered with the ignorant and incompetent multitude, must study speculative philosophy."

That helped. Good introduction. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions.Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Well, I hoppe to read it one more before I die and maybe that'll be OK. Preferably preceeded by some serious Kant. Of course, I had already read three of his works before this, so I already went into this fairly well grounded in Schopenhauer’s system.
Well, I know what group I want to be in! Dans le plan général du Monde comme volonté et comme représentation , la contemplation est présentée comme une étape vers l'abolition du vouloir-vivre. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -Le monde comme volonté et comme représentation