[The World as Will and Representation 01] • Arthur Schopenhauer by Aquila, Richard E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Dedication Preface to the Translation by Matthias Kossler Translator’s Introduction

A. Die Welt ist meine Vorstellung B. Principle of Sufficient Ground and Principium Individuationis C. Der Wille D. The Aufhebung of Will E. The Text F. The Present and Other Translations G. Selective Notes on Some Terms H. Selective Bibliography I. Acknowledgments

The World as Will and Presentation Volume One

Schopenhauer’s Table of Contents Expanded Preface to the First Edition (1818) Preface to the Second Edition (1844) Preface to the Third Edition (1859) First Book The World as Presentation: First Consideration Presentation as Subject to the Principle of Sufficient Ground: The Object of Experience and Science

§ 2. Correlativity of Subject and Object Subjection of Object to the Principle of Sufficient Ground § 1. The One-Sided Approach of Book One § 3. Space and Time as Ground of Being Objects of Pure Perception § 4. Causality and Pure Understanding Matter in Essence Causality Sensation vs. Perception The Body as Immediate Object § 5. Disputes about the Reality of the External World Life as a Dream § 6. More on the Body as Immediate Object Understanding without Concepts Human and Animal Intelligence § 7. Systems that Proceed from the Object or Subject Alone Natural Science More on the Principle of Sufficient Ground § 8. Conceptual Reason vs. Perceptual Understanding § 9. Concepts as Abstractions Logic as Science § 10. More on Logic, Science, and Knowledge § 11. The Concept of "Feeling" as a Negative Concept § 12. Advantages and Disadvantages of Reason § 13. A Theory of Humor § 14. More on the Sciences Superiority of Perception over Proof § 15. Mathematics, Logic, Truth, Philosophy § 16. Practical Reason Properly and Falsely So-Called

Second Book The World as Will: First Consideration The Objectification of Will

§ 17. The Inner Meaning of Presentations – Not an Object The Demand Not Satisfied by Science Mysterious Character of Natural Forces § 18. The Body Given in Two very Different Manners Immediate Experience of the Body as Will An Entirely Unique Sort of Cognizance § 19. Extension of this Twofold View to the World as a Whole § 20. Actions Determined by Character plus Motive Empirical vs. Intelligible Character No Ultimate Explanation of the Latter Individual Bodies as Individual Wills Objectified § 21. Will as Thing in Itself § 22. Extension of the Concept of Will Will and Force § 23. Groundlessness of Will as Thing in Itself Beyond the Principle of Individuation All Phenomena Subject to Complete Determinism Causes, Stimuli, and Motives § 24. Time, Space, and Causality only Forms Belonging to Cognition Pure Mathematics and Pure Natural Science The Futile Attempts of Natural Science to Fathom Ultimate Reality § 25. Space and Time as the Principle of Individuation Preliminary Comparison with Plato’s Theory of Ideas § 26. Original Forces and the Characters of Things as Ideas Secondary Status of Natural Laws and Causes § 27. More on the Limitations of Natural Science Intimation of the Thing in Itself in Nature A Cautious Philosophy of Nature § 28. Higher Levels of Objectification of Will Inseparable from Lower Internal and External Purposiveness in Nature Empirical and Intelligible Character Again § 29. Groundlessness of Ideas Will as Thing in Itself Without Ultimate Purpose

Third Book The World as Presentation: Second Consideration Presentation Independent of the Principle of Sufficient Ground The Platonic Idea: The Object of Art

§ 30. Levels of Objectification of Will as Platonic Ideas § 31. Platonic Ideas and Kant’s Thing in Itself § 32. Platonic Ideas as Presentations/Not the Thing in Itself as Such Kant’s Inconsistency § 33. Cognition Freed from Relations in the Cognizance of Ideas § 34. The Subject Will-less in Its Cognizance of Ideas Release from the Principles of Sufficient Ground and Individuation § 35. Ideas distinguished from their Phenomena § 36. The Replication of Ideas in Art Genius and Madness § 37. Degrees of the Innate Capacity for Cognizance of Ideas § 38. The Subjective Side of the Aesthetic Experience § 39. The Aesthetically Sublime § 40. The Stimulating as the Contrary of the Sublime § 41. Everything Beautiful in its Own Way Further Comparison with Plato § 42. The Subjective and Objective Sides of the Aesthetic Experience § 43. The Aesthetic Display of the Most General Ideas of Matter Architecture and the Fine Art of Water-Conduction § 44. The Fine Art of Gardens Painting that Depicts Incognizant Beings Paintings and Sculptures of Animals § 45. Historical Painting and Sculpture Human Beauty and Grace Standards and Ideals of Beauty § 46. Why Laokoön does not Scream § 47. Nudity and Clothing – For Body and Mind § 48. Historical Painting and the Idea of Humanity § 49. The Difference between Ideas and Concepts Substance vs. Mannerism in Art § 50. The Expression of Concepts in Art Allegory and Symbol § 51. The Literary Arts Poetry and History – Song – Tragedy The Idea of Humanity § 52. The Special Case of Music

Fourth Book The World as Will: Second Consideration With the Achievement of Self-Cogntzance Affirmation and Denial of the Will for Life

§ 53. The Ethical Part of this Work not Practical Philosophy No "Ought" to be Prescribed The Irrelevance of History § 54. Life and Death The Eternal Present No Individual Survival Affirmation and Denial of the Will for Life § 55. Freedom and Determinism Complete Self-Denial the Only Possible Freedom within the Phenomenon Empirical, Intelligible, and Acquired Character § 56. Cognition as Motive and as Quieter of Will Will Lacking in Ultimate Purpose Life as Constant Suffering § 57. Life, Death, Suffering, Boredom § 58. Happiness Negative and Transitory Religious Superstition § 59. More on the Misery of Life Optimism and Pessimism § 60. Affirmation of the Will for Life The Sex Drive Its Strongest Form A Glimpse of Eternal Justice § 61. The Egoism Inherent in Every Being § 62. Self-Affirmation Extended to Denial of the Will in Others Right as a Purely Negative Concept Moral vs. Legal Right and Wrong Purpose of the State Justification of Punishment § 63. Temporal vs. Eternal Justice § 64. Eternal Justice Obscurely Felt by Everyone § 65. Good. Bad, Evil, Malice Conscience as Feeling § 66. True Virtue not a Matter of Morality or Dogmas Grounded in Intuitive, not Abstract Cognizance Righteousness vs. True Goodness § 67. True Virtue as Pure Love Its Grounding in Compassion Crying and Compassion for Oneself § 68. From Virtue to Asceticism – Denial of the Will for Life The Example of Saintly Individuals Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism Two Paths to Self-Denial § 69. Suicide § 70. Denial of Will the Only Real Freedom in the Phenomenon Will and Phenomenon in Contradiction Cognition in Contradiction with Will Christian Symbolism § 71. Nothingness

Appendix Critique of Kantian Philosophy Translator’s Appendix Ennotes Index

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