Studies in Pessimism. A Series of Essays
Автор:
Артур Шопенгауэр,T. Bailey Saunders, 144 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
9781614274087
2013 Reprint of 1891 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Arthur Schopenhauer, an early 19th century philosopher, made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. His work also informed theories of evolution and psychology, largely through his theory of the will to power - a concept which Nietzsche famously adopted and developed. Despite this, he is today, as he was during his life, overshadowed by his contemporary, Hegel. Schopenhauer's social/psychological views, put forth in this work and in others, are directly derived from his metaphysics, which was strongly influenced by Eastern thought. His pessimism forms an interesting and perhaps questionable contrast with his obvious joy in self-expression, both in the elegance of his prose and in his practice of playing the flute nightly. His brilliance, poetry, and crushing pessimism can be seen immediately in this work, as for example in this claim...