1st Edition
Schopenhauer's Early Fourfold Root Translation and Commentary
By F. C. White
Copyright 1997
112 Pages
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Routledge
108 Pages
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Routledge
112 Pages
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Routledge
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Schopenhauer’s Early Fourfold Root constitutes a landmark in Schopenhaurian scholarship. It is a translation with concise commentary of Schopenhauer’s doctoral thesis as submitted to the University of Jena and published at Rudolstadt in 1813. In spite of the great and increasing interest in the writings of Schopenhauer in the English-speaking world, this work has never been translated before, and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; A survey of the principal doctrines put forward so far concerning the principle of sufficient reason; Insufficiency of the account given so far and an outline of a new one; On the first class of objects for the subject and the form of the principle of sufficient reason governing it; On the second class of objects for the subject and the form of the principle of sufficient reason governing it; On the third class of objects for the subject and the form of the principle of sufficient reason governing it; On the fourth class of objects for the subject and the form of the principle of sufficient reason governing it; General remarks and conclusions; General survey with comments on Schopenhauer’s text, by F.C.White; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
F. C. White
’Like a painting restored to its original colours, the Fourfold Root emerges in this lucid rendition as the work of an incisive and disciplined young thinker. Scholarly understanding of Schopenhauer’s philosophy will benefit from this new translation, and the book’s succinct survey of the argument will aid the less experienced reader.’ Dr Christopher Janaway, Birkbeck College, University of London
