Schopenhauer Religion And Morality

Author : Gerard Mannion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351901990
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality written by Gerard Mannion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work challenges the textbook assessment of Schopenhauer as militant atheist and absolute pessimist. In examining Schopenhauer's grappling with religion, theology and Kant's moral philosophy, Mannion suggests we can actually discern a 'religious' humility in method in Schopenhauer's work, seen most clearly in his ethics of compassion and his doctrine of salvation. Given Schopenhauer’s opinion of religion as the ’metaphysics of the people’, his utilisation of and affinity with many religious ideas and doctrines, and the culmination of his philosophy in a doctrine of salvation that ends in the ’mystical’, Mannion suggests that Schopenhauer’s philosophy is an explanatory hypothesis which functionally resembles religious belief systems in many ways. Mannion further argues that Schopenhauer cannot claim to have gone any further than such religious systems in discerning the 'true' nature of ultimate reality, for he admits that they also end in the ’mystical’, beyond which we must remain silent. Indeed, Schopenhauer offers an interpretation, as opposed to outright rejection of religion and his system gains the coherence that it does through being parasitic upon religious thought itself. Given current debates between theologians and philosophers in relation to 'postmodernity' and 'postmodern thought', this book illustrates that Schopenhauer should be a key figure in such debates.

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141957328
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc" by Arthur Schopenhauer (translated by T. Bailey Saunders). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion: a Dialogue, and Other Essays written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book The Basis of Morality written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert L. Wicks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190660058
Total Pages : 634 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer written by Robert L. Wicks and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though known primarily as a herald of philosophical pessimism, the full range of Schopenhauer's contributions is displayed here in a collection of thirty-one essays on the forefront of Schopenhauer scholarship. The essays explore his central notions, including the will, empirical knowledge, and the sublime, and widens to the interplay of ethics and religion with Schopenhauer's philosophy. Authors confront difficult aspects of Schopenhauer's work and legacy - for example, the extent to which Schopenhauer adopted ideas from his predecessors compared to how much was original and visionary in his central claim that reality is a blind, senseless 'will,' the effectiveness of his philosophy in the field of scientific explanation and extrasensory phenomena, and the role of beauty and sublimity in his outlook.--

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : 谷月社
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, a Dialogue, Etc written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schopenhauer is one of the few philosophers who can be generally understood without a commentary. All his theories claim to be drawn direct from the facts, to be suggested by observation, and to interpret the world as it is; and whatever view he takes, he is constant in his appeal to the experience of common life. This characteristic endows his style with a freshness and vigor which would be difficult to match in the philosophical writing of any country, and impossible in that of Germany. If it were asked whether there were any circumstances apart from heredity, to which he owed his mental habit, the answer might be found in the abnormal character of his early education, his acquaintance with the world rather than with books, the extensive travels of his boyhood, his ardent pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and without regard to the emoluments and endowments of learning. He was trained in realities even more than in ideas; and hence he is original, forcible, clear, an enemy of all philosophic indefiniteness and obscurity; so that it may well be said of him, in the words of a writer in the Revue Contemporaine, ce n'est pas un philosophe comme les autres, c'est un philosophe qui a vu le monde. It is not my purpose, nor would it be possible within the limits of a prefatory note, to attempt an account of Schopenhauer's philosophy, to indicate its sources, or to suggest or rebut the objections which may be taken to it. M. Ribot, in his excellent little book, [Footnote: La Philosophie de Schopenhauer, par Th. Ribot.] has done all that is necessary in this direction. But the essays here presented need a word of explanation. It should be observed, and Schopenhauer himself is at pains to point out, that his system is like a citadel with a hundred gates: at whatever point you take it up, wherever you make your entrance, you are on the road to the center. In this respect his writings resemble a series of essays composed in support of a single thesis; a circumstance which led him to insist, more emphatically even than most philosophers, that for a proper understanding of his system it was necessary to read every line he had written. Perhaps it would be more correct to describe Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellungas his main thesis, and his other treatises as merely corollary to it. The essays in this volume form part of the corollary; they are taken from a collection published towards the close of Schopenhauer's life, and by him entitled Parerga und Paralipomena, as being in the nature of surplusage and illustrative of his main position. They are by far the most popular of his works, and since their first publication in 1851, they have done much to build up his fame. Written so as to be intelligible enough in themselves, the tendency of many of them is towards the fundamental idea on which his system is based. It may therefore be convenient to summarize that idea in a couple of sentences; more especially as Schopenhauer sometimes writes as if his advice had been followed and his readers were acquainted with the whole of his work.

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199297223
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two important essays show Schopenhauer at his most accessible, offering two self-contained and clearly argued contributions to ethical theory, published here in a new translation that preserves Schopenhauer's style in a lucid and engaging way. This is also the only paperback edition to publish both essays together. Schopenhauer argues, in uniquely powerful prose, that self-consciousness gives the illusion of freedom and that human actions are determined, but that we rightly feel guilt because our actions issue from our essential individual character. He locates moral value in the virtues of loving kindness and voluntary justice that spring from the fundamental incentive of compassion. Morality's basis is ultimately metaphysical, resting on an intuitive identification of the self with all other striving and suffering beings. The Introduction by leading Schopenhauer scholar Christopher Janaway gives a clear summary of the argument of the essays in the context of Schopenhauer's life and works and the history of ethics in the modern period. The volume includes helpful notes, up-to-date bibliography, and a full index. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Double 9 Books
ISBN 13 : 9789358011524
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Double 9 Books. This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Religion: A Dialogue, etc." is a collection of essays written by Arthur Schopenhauer, a prominent German philosopher of the 19th century. The book's primary focus is on religion and philosophy, with Schopenhauer sharing his thoughts on a wide range of topics, including ethics, free will, and human nature. The central essay in the collection is "Religion: A Dialogue," in which Schopenhauer presents a critique of organized religion and argues for a more individualized approach to spirituality. He also explores the concept of the divine and the nature of God, challenging traditional religious beliefs. Other essays in the collection include "The Christian System," in which Schopenhauer critiques the teachings of Christianity, and "On Books and Reading," which offers insights into Schopenhauer's views on literature and the value of reading. Overall, "The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Religion: A Dialogue, etc." offers a thought-provoking exploration of philosophy and religion, and Schopenhauer's ideas continue to be influential in modern philosophy.

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Ayer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780836928204
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion: a Dialogue, and Other Essays written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1891 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: