Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical EssaysCosimo, Inc., 2007 M06 1 - 664 páginas This is the only complete English translation of one of the most significant and fascinating works of the great philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). The Parerga (Volume 1) are six long essays; the Paralipomena (Volume 2) are shorter writings arranged under thirty-one different subject-headings. These works won widespread attention with their publication in 1851, helping to secure lasting international fame for Schopenhauer. Indeed, their intellectual vigor, literary power, and rich diversity are still extraordinary even today. |
Contenido
ON THE SUFFERINGS OF THE WORLD 5 | 5 |
THE VANITY OF EXISTENCE 19 | 19 |
A DIALOGUE 30 | 30 |
ON EDUCATION 54 | 54 |
ON WOMEN 62 | 62 |
ON NOISE 76 | 76 |
Términos y frases comunes
Accordingly action amongst ancient animals appears Aristotle Arthur Schopenhauer attain beauty become better boredom Brahmanism Buddhists character chimæra Christianity circumstances comes consciousness course degree Demopheles Dialectic Diogenes Laertius doctrine effect egoism envy Eristic everything everywhere evil ex concessis existence expression fact false fame favour feeling genius give Goethe hand happens happiness Hence human ideas individual instance intel intellect intelligence interest kind knowledge learning live look man's mankind matter means metaphysical metempsychosis mind miserable misfortune moral nature never object opinion opponent ordinary pain Pantheism person Petrarch Philalethes philistine philosophy physiognomy Plato pleasure position possess present principle qualities reason regard religion rule Schopenhauer sense society sophism stand suffering Theism thing-in-itself things thought Translator's true truth virtue Voltaire whole women words write youth
Pasajes populares
Página 31 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
Página 49 - A woman of fortune being used to the handling of money, spends it judiciously : but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.