Brunno:
Excelente
Brazil on Dec 05, 2023
Connor Alex McDowell:
Have you ever felt that philosophers are wasting your time?
Likely those who teach classes from a textbook at university. They string together 3 or 4 big words per sentence that all are all subjective and so every sentence they speak means absolutely nothing to the beholder.
Well, Schopenhauer is the opposite.
His writing, as he puts it somewhere else in the book about others, is the only type of writing worth reading as it shines light on topics that are obscure and obfuscated and makes them more clear and well-lit to the reader.
This is an analogy he provides while discussing how concepts are superior to perception when it comes to informing ones actions in the world. Man, he argues, can reference spiritual ideas when informing his action; but the spiritual ideas are distant from reality and can often be upset or interfered with by trifles which act on us from very close.
"Just as the magnetic needle, which is kept in position by the combined effect of widely distributed natural forces embracing the whole earth, can nevertheless be perturbed and set in violent oscillation by a small piece of iron, if one is brought quite close to it, so even...
Canada on Apr 30, 2022
Miss Jk Atwal:
Throughout the 30 odd years that I've been reading, I have to say that volume 2 of World as Will and Representation is the most fascinating book I have ever come across. I have read of most Schopenhauer's works, and this book is certainly the most thought-provoking and magical of his writings. Although his writing is very clear, his ideas are not so easy to get your head around, it definitely needs a second and third reading. I would even say that this book is life changing.
Essays I highly recommend are:
On Man's Need for Metaphysics
On History
On Death and Its Relation to the Indestructability of Our Inner Nature
On the Vanity and Suffering of Life
On Ethics
On the Doctrine of the Denial of the Will-to-Live
The Road to Salvation
Epiphilosophy
Most highly recommended!!
United Kingdom on Feb 11, 2021
Luc REYNAERT:
In the second volume of 'The World as Will and Representation' Schopenhauer gives, sometimes in a too exhaustive manner, further comments and explanations on his first volume. Hereafter, a tentative summary of some of its main points.
The will, matter, the body, the intellect
Matter is the mere visibility of the will. Its essential nature consists in acting. It is through and through causality.
Our body is matter, but also will. The individual can understand through his body's actions from within the real inner nature of things, the thing-in-itself, the will.
All philosophers have made the mistake of placing that which is metaphysical, indestructible and eternal, in man's intellect. But, the intellect is nothing more than a tool of the will. The kernel is not the knowing consciousness, because it perishes together with the individual. The will however continues to live. It remains untouched by time. It is simply indestructible.
Knowledge, reason, power of judgment, morality, man's character
All knowing is essentially a making of representations. Since the faculty of reason is given to all, but power of judgment to few, the...
United Kingdom on May 02, 2020
Ron Schaffer:
Took me awhile to understand the central claim(s), but once I did I was very impressed. Schopenhauer was, rightly so, an influence on most of the great thinkers in the modern era and this text effectively illustrates why.
United States on Apr 16, 2020
Pedro Henrique Lobo:
O livro veio como esperava.
Brazil on Feb 14, 2020
Josh YatesJosh Yates:
My favorite pessimist. Schopenhauer is matter of fact when it comes to being human.
United States on Sep 26, 2019
Ian Austin:
This arrived today and I'm happy to say that the print and paper quality are both excellent. I'm still cracking into this edition, but so far I have nothing but nice things to say about it.
As far as the actual work is concerned, this is Schopenhauer's magnum opus and should be read by absolutely everyone who claims to enjoy Western philosophy.
United States on May 01, 2018
Kindle Customer:
This is a book you just read and try to understand. Yes it is dated now but it's also the building block for many of the ideas that follow and are taken for granted today. The Kindle copy is clean and easy to read which is not always the case.
United States on Jan 18, 2013
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I decided to move on to volume 2. This is a great edition and a decent translation, but I prefer the more modern translation by Judith Norman Alistair Welchman and Christopher Janeway that I have in the paperback edition.
As for this edition on Kindle, it is excellent. I haven't seen any formatting errors or mistakes. for the price, this is a five-star purchase all the way.
United States on Feb 28, 2024