Vérité et Ethos: recueil commémoratif dédié à Alphonse-Marie ParentJaromir Danek, éditeur Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1982. xxxvi, 405 p.

Abstract

Schopenhauer still has genuine devotees. In an essay written shortly after the Second World War, a time when "Hegel's voice has faded away", when "it seems as if man has turned away from the spirit of Hegel and [in his new emphasis on the individual] has moved towards the spirit of Schopenhauer", Arthur Hiibscher presents Schopenhauer as a philosopher whose thought leaves us with ' 'an experience of truth so impregnable, so lasting, that no other philosophy could match it", a philosophy "by which we can live ... and also die". Frederick Copleston contributes a smooth account of the place of Schopenhauer in the life and thought of Nietzsche in the context of an intelligent portrait of the two which shows them as "two brothers who are unlike in temperament" but "the vision is the same". R. K. Gupta is not a philosopher, and the reader will have to keep reminding himself of that as he has some similarities between Schopenhauer and Freud pointed out to him. S. Morris Engel also traces some similarities, but in this case some remarkable ones between Schopenhauer's and Wittgenstein's logic and philosophy of language, which suggest that Wittgenstein read Schopenhauer not only as a boy but in later life as well. Another set of similarities, this time between Schopenhauer's philosophy and Buddhism is supplied by B. V. Kishan. I wish this book well. It deserves to be adopted as a text in courses on Schopenhauer as well, perhaps, as in courses dealing with German philosophy or nineteenth-century philosophy. And, of course, anyone interested in Schopenhauer will find many of the essays in this anthology stimulating and rewarding.