The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life.
Schopenhauer was part of the school known as German idealism, following Kant and Hegel. One of his main themes was that the world was idea, that is, it is a mental phenomenon that everyone shares. Schopenhauer thought we could know the nature of reality, the will, because we are part of it. He was greatly influenced by Indian religion and.Find books like Networks Without a Cause: A Critique of Social Media from the world’s largest community of readers. Goodreads members who liked Networks.Thoughtful, well-written survey of Schopenhauer's philosophy and works. Brief but enlightening. Bryan Magee's work on Schopenhauer is more extensive, but Young's book is a good introduction and reading both books gives a thorough treatment of Schopenhauer's imposing system of thought.
Georgios Varouxakis e Mark Philp (a cura di), Happiness and Utility.Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen “Happiness and Utility brings together experts on utilitarianism to explore the concept of happiness within the utilitarian tradition, situating it in earlier eighteenth-century thinkers and working through some of its developments at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the.Publisher’s Description: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero’s tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic.
Friedrich Nietzsche, who was born in 1844, fell silent in 1889 suffering a mental collapse, and died eleven years later, was the first great philosopher of the twentieth century.What made, and makes, him so important, is that he recognized with great clarity and impressive foresight the most troubling and persistent problem of modernity, the problem of values.
