Schopenhauer: ‘The World as Will and Representation’ Volume 2

Abstract

The purpose of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer is to offer translations of the best modern German editions of Schopenhauer's work in a uniform format for Schopenhauer scholars, together with philosophical introductions and full editorial apparatus. The World as Will and Representation contains Schopenhauer's entire philosophy, ranging through epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics and philosophy of art, to ethics, the meaning of life and the philosophy of religion. This second volume was added to the work in 1844, and revised in 1859. Its chapters are officially 'supplements' to the first volume, but are indispensable for a proper appreciation of Schopenhauer's thought. Here we have his most mature reflections on many topics, including sex, death, conscious and unconscious desires, and the doctrines of salvation and liberation in Christian and Indian thought. Schopenhauer clarifies the nature of his metaphysics of the will, and synthesizes insights from a broad range of literary, scientific and scholarly sources. This new translation reflects the eloquence and power of Schopenhauer's prose, and renders philosophical terms accurately and consistently. It offers an introduction, glossary of names, bibliography, and succinct editorial notes.

Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure association factors with suicide: An instrument for a populational survey

“…Sociological, psychiatric, theological, philosophical, psychological, historical, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, and neurobiological foundations were considered as the theoretical bases of the questionnaire 15–44 …”

Autopsies on the body of nature: Dark ecology in Thomas Bernhard'sVerstörung

“…For such an eye necessarily brings about knowledge, for which and in which alone the whole world is, and without which it is not even conceivable. (Schopenhauer, 1966a, 30)…”

“…Recognizing the futility of any further egoic “solidification” against the “threat” of nature, Saurau increasingly adopts a resigned attitude of mind that, with reference to Schopenhauer, can be understood as a progressive “quieting” of the will. In Schopenhauer's philosophy, the intuitive realization of the will's “inner conflict and its essential vanity” (resulting from its blind, pre‐rational striving towards self‐preservation and ‐realization at all costs) becomes a “ quieter of the will” (Schopenhauer, 1966a, 397; Latin quies = calm), renouncing the “egoism” originating in the “ principium individuationis ” (p. 253). The latter, according to Schopenhauer, is what makes possible a plurality of individuals under the forms of space and time and thus what prevents each individual from seeing that his/her fellow beings are in a fundamental sense identical to him‐/herself.…”

Pure Laparoscopic Explant Hepatectomy: The Penultimate Step Toward a Minimally Invasive Robotic‐Assisted Liver Transplantation?

“…To paraphrase a great philosopher, all the innovations go through stages where they are first ridiculed or violently opposed, and then accepted as obvious. (5) For this, we want to congratulate Dr. Suh and his colleagues for their formidable contribution.…”