Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings

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Main Details

Title Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Arthur Schopenhauer
Edited and translated by David E. Cartwright
Edited and translated by Edward E. Erdmann
Edited and translated by Christopher Janaway
SeriesThe Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:558
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 157
Category/GenreWestern philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780521872713
ClassificationsDewey:193
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 8 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 20 September 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This volume of translations unites three shorter works by Arthur Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World as Will and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he takes the principle of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is without a reason why it is, and shows how it covers different forms of explanation or ground that previous philosophers have tended to confuse. Schopenhauer regarded this study, which he first wrote as his doctoral dissertation, as an essential preliminary to The World as Will. On Will in Nature examines contemporary scientific findings in search of corroboration of his thesis that processes in nature are all a species of striving towards ends; and On Vision and Colours defends an anti-Newtonian account of colour perception influenced by Goethe's famous colour theory. This is the first English edition to provide extensive editorial notes on the different published versions of these works.

Author Biography

David E. Cartwright is a Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies and the chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. He has numerous publications in nineteenth-century German philosophy and has edited and translated a number of Schopenhauer's books, most recently, with Edward E. Erdmann, The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (2010); and he is the author of Schopenhauer: A Biography (2010). Edward E. Erdmann is an emeritus faculty member of the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater with a scholarly background in classical and early modern rhetorical theory. He writes regularly on subjects in agriculture, has edited German translations of textbooks and scientific reports on organic agriculture. Christopher Janaway is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He has published widely on nineteenth-century German philosophy, including Self and World in Schopenhauer's Philosophy (1989), The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer (1999), Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (2002), and Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (2007). He is General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer, in which he has translated The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics and co-translated The World as Will and Representation, Volume 1.

Reviews

'This new translation of three of Schopenhauer's essays is of a very high quality and is testament to the customary rigor of the Cambridge Translations. Undoubtedly, this new edition will become in time the standard work of reference for English-speaking scholars worldwide.' Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger