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Free Download Paolo Stellino, "Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein"
English | ISBN: 3030539369 | 2020 | 262 pages | EPUB, PDF | 680 KB + 3 MB
This book aims to address in a novel way some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning suicide. Focusing on four major authors of Western philosophy – Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein – their arguments in favour or against suicide are explained, contextualized, examined and critically assessed. Taken together, these four perspectives provide an illuminating overview of the philosophical arguments that can be used for or against one’s right to commit suicide. Intended both for specialists and those interested in understanding the many complexities underlying the philosophical debate on suicide, this book combines philosophical depth with exemplary clarity.

Free Download Dennis Vanden Auweele, "The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer’s Pessimism "
English | ISBN: 0367888793 | 2019 | 242 pages | EPUB | 1364 KB
This book connects Schopenhauer’s philosophy with transcendental idealism by exploring the distinctly Kantian roots of his pessimism. By clearly discerning four types of coming to knowledge, it demonstrates how Schopenhauer’s epistemology can enlighten this connection with other areas of his philosophy. The individual chapters in this book discuss how these knowledge types―immediate or mediate, representational or non-representational―relate to Schopenhauer’s metaphysics, ethics and action, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and asceticism. In each of these areas, a specific sense of pessimism serves to disarm a number of paradoxes and inconsistencies typically associated with Schopenhauer’s philosophy. The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer’s Pessismism shows how Schopenhauer’s claim that he is a true successor to Kant can be justified.

Free Download Schopenhauer on the Character of the World: The Metaphysics of Will (UC Press Voices Revived) by John E. Atwell
English | March 17, 1995 | ISBN: 0520087704 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 4.4 MB
The most extensive English-language study of Schopenhauer’s metaphysics of the will yet published, this book represents a major contribution to Schopenhauer scholarship.

Free Download Death, contemplation and Schopenhauer By Schopenhauer, Arthur; Singh, R. Raj
2007 | 126 Pages | ISBN: 0754660508 | PDF | 3 MB
The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical sources of this philosophical literature, in particular Plato’s "Phaedo" and the "Katha Upanishad" and then proceeds to a sustained analysis and critical assessment of the sources and standpoints of a single thinker, Arthur Schopenhauer, whose work comprehensively pursues this problem. Going beyond the well examined western influences on Schopenhauer, Singh offers an in-depth account of Schopenhauer’s references to eastern thought and a comprehensive examination of his eastern sources, particularly Vedanta and Buddhism. The book traces the pivotal issue of death through the whole range of Schopenhauer’s writings uncovering the deeper connotations of his crucial notion of the will-to-live

Free Download The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings by Arthur Schopenhauer
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0061768243 | 368 Pages | EPUB | 1.9 MB
The Essential Schopenhauer delivers the first comprehensive English anthology of the seminal philosopher’s writings, edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, president of the International Schopenhauer Association.

Free Download Marco Segala, "A Convex Mirror: Schopenhauer’s Philosophy and the Sciences"
English | ISBN: 019759915X | 2024 | 384 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 22 MB
Schopenhauer is most recognizable as "the philosopher of pessimism," the author of a system that teaches how art and morality can help human beings navigate life in "the worst of all possible worlds." This dominant image of Schopenhauer has cut off an important branch of his tree of philosophy: the metaphysics of nature and its dialogue with the sciences of the time.