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Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

About the Author: Arthur Schopenhauer is a German philosopher, usually famous for his pessimism about life as “a pendulum that swings between pain and boredom.” Schopenhauer actually lived alone and immersed for the greater part of his life, but his loneliness or personal suffering was not, as some think, a primary reason for formulating his pessimistic views of life. On the contrary, Schopenhauer’s life – at least in its beginning – was not as bad as we might imagine, and it can be said that many opportunities were available to him to live a quiet academic and bourgeois life that satisfies the masses of people. of modern and ancient languages, as he went to dance and theater parties in his youth, His mother Joanna also set up a salon attended by many intellectuals, including the great German poet Goethe, but Arthur was constantly at odds with his mother, especially after his father’s death. Schopenhauer later obtained his doctorate from the University of Berlin, and he was destined to have a quiet teaching career had he not chosen – stubbornly, courageous and perhaps naive – to give his lectures at the same time during which the most prominent German philosopher at the time, Georg Hegel, was giving his lectures, no one listened to Schopenhauer Who decided to retire from teaching and devote himself to writing. Schopenhauer offered his extremely insightful views on many issues, from epistemology and philosophy of science to philosophy of ethics and art, and he was careful in his thinking, following the example of the German philosopher Kant the “Great” as he liked to describe him, particularly in his strict self-criticism of his ideas. He also remained loyal to philosophy, resenting those who make it an “instrument of state purposes from above, and personal purposes from below”. And he was firm in his conviction that he had accomplished his philosophical work not for his contemporaries or for the people of his country, but for humanity, because of his belief that everything of value needed a long time to gain its legitimacy. of moral authority) even daring to describe the latter as a “charlatan” and “mentally degenerate.”

Le monde comme volonté et comme représentation book pdf download By Arthur Schopenhauer

Cette édition Quadrige est la reprise de l’édition reliée parue en 1966 aux Puf et dont la 14e édition est parue en 1996. L’année du centenaire de sa mort 1960, des articles parus, la plupart considérait les publications du “vieux solitaire, irascible et grincheux” philosophe comme n’ayant plus qu’un intérêt historique d’autant que peu de textes étaient disponibles en français. L’avenir les détrompa. D’où l’intérêt de cette traduction qui permet de redécouvrir l’oeuvre et la pensée de Schopenhauer, initiateur entre autres de Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, André Gide, sans compter les “admirateurs” actuels. Lors de la première publication de l’ouvrage son auteur n’avait pas trente ans, les éditions suivantes ont été augmentées de commentaires qui parfois trahissent davantage la maturité et même la vieillesse d’où les critiques de “philosophe grincheux et solitaire”… Sa philosophie n’est pas celle d’un système mais davantage une vision intuitive augmentée au fil des années, qu’on accepte ou qu’on rejette, dont l’enseignement se rapproche de celui d’Epicure. Cet ouvrage est l’un des plus grands classiques de la philosophie à l’égal de la “Critique de la raison pure” de Kant.

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