Schopenhauer: Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will

By:

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

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Written in 1839 and chosen as the winning entry in a competition held by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences, Schopenhauer's Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will marked the beginning of its author's public recognition and is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism. Schopenhauer distinguishes the freedom of acting from the freedom of willing, affirming the former while denying the latter. He portrays human action as thoroughly determined but also argues that the freedom which cannot be established in the sphere of human action is preserved at the level of our innermost being as individuated will, whose reality transcends all dependency on outside factors. This volume offers the text in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F. J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together with a historical and philosophical introduction by Gunter Zoller.

Release date NZ

April 22nd, 1999

Author

Arthur Schopenhauer

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributors

Edited by Gunter Zoller
Series edited by Desmond M. Clarke
Series edited by Karl Ameriks
Translated by E.F.J. Payne

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

black & white illustrations

Imprint

Cambridge University Press

Pages

144

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Series

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

Dimensions

152x228x13

ISBN-13

9780521571418

Product ID

2364873

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