One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, "Parerga and Paralipom...
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, "Parerga and Paralipomena", which he published in 1851. These pieces depict humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world, in which art, morality and self-awareness are our only salvation. This innovative - and pessimistic - view has proved powerfully influential upon philosophy and art, directly affecting the work of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Wagner among others.
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p68
We all feel that we are something other than a being which someone once
created out of nothing: from this arises the confidence that, while death may
be able to end our life, it cannot end our existence.
p72
...that we should in some sense or other survive death is no greater miracle
than that of procreation, which we have before our eyes every day. What dies
goes to where all life originates, its own included. From this point of view
our life is to be regarded as a loan received from death, with sleep as the
daily interest on this loan.
p73
However much the plays and the masks on the world's stage may change it is
always the same actors who appear. We sit together and talk and grow excited,
and our eyes glitter and our voices grow shriller: just so did \emph{others}
sit an... (查看原文)
p46
...every animal, even an infusorium, suffers pain, because knowledge, however
imperfect, is the true characteristic of animality. At each higher stage of
animal life there is a corresponding increase in pain. In the lowest animals
it is extremely slight, but even in the highest it nowhere approaches the pain
which man is capable of feeling, since even the highest animals lack thought
and concepts. And it is right that this capacity for pain should reach its
zenith only where, by virtue of the existence of reason, there also exists the
possibility of denial of the will: for otherwise it would be nothing but
aimless cruelty.
p50
...one might indeed consider that the appropriate from of address between man
and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de
mi... (查看原文)
3.7/5.0 软四 这人真的是浮夸的要命 不仅对‘凡人’轻蔑而且对女性描述的言辞也是发指 估计很多论题是他提出来所以有些地位但对其论述的并不总能令人信服 而且过分bleak其实有点反感 philosophy can be humane and should bear the capacity to move people.
3.7/5.0 软四 这人真的是浮夸的要命 不仅对‘凡人’轻蔑而且对女性描述的言辞也是发指 估计很多论题是他提出来所以有些地位但对其论述的并不总能令人信服 而且过分bleak其实有点反感 philosophy can be humane and should bear the capacity to move people.
2 有用 PEAR 2013-07-22 13:26:10
出版的时候大概是1850左右？叔本华坐了几十年冷板凳终于靠这一本通俗易懂的书出了名，从此悲观主义盛行的时代人手一本意志与表象，曾经的死对头黑格尔之类终于无人再问津。。。大概是死也瞑目了。
0 有用 [已注销] 2011-11-16 12:02:04
就是个佛教徒
0 有用 perrkk 2019-05-21 11:43:34
3.7/5.0 软四 这人真的是浮夸的要命 不仅对‘凡人’轻蔑而且对女性描述的言辞也是发指 估计很多论题是他提出来所以有些地位但对其论述的并不总能令人信服 而且过分bleak其实有点反感 philosophy can be humane and should bear the capacity to move people.
2 有用 子矜 2017-10-16 13:43:51
It is always a pleasure to read Schopenhauer on the train.
0 有用 perrkk 2019-05-21 11:43:34
3.7/5.0 软四 这人真的是浮夸的要命 不仅对‘凡人’轻蔑而且对女性描述的言辞也是发指 估计很多论题是他提出来所以有些地位但对其论述的并不总能令人信服 而且过分bleak其实有点反感 philosophy can be humane and should bear the capacity to move people.
2 有用 子矜 2017-10-16 13:43:51
It is always a pleasure to read Schopenhauer on the train.
2 有用 PEAR 2013-07-22 13:26:10
出版的时候大概是1850左右？叔本华坐了几十年冷板凳终于靠这一本通俗易懂的书出了名，从此悲观主义盛行的时代人手一本意志与表象，曾经的死对头黑格尔之类终于无人再问津。。。大概是死也瞑目了。
0 有用 [已注销] 2011-11-16 12:02:04
就是个佛教徒