Schopenhauer – författare

Written in 1839 and chosen as the winning entry in a competition held by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences, Schopenhauer's Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will marked the beginning of its author's public recognition and is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism. Schopenhauer distinguishes the freedom of acting from the freedom of willing, affirming the former while denying the latter. He portrays human action as thoroughly determined but also argues that the freedom which cannot be established in the sphere of human action is preserved at the level of our innermost being as individuated will, whose reality transcends all dependency on outside factors. This volume offers the text in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F. J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together with a historical and philosophical introduction by Günter Zöller.

Written in 1839 and chosen as the winning entry in a competition held by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences, Schopenhauer's Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will marked the beginning of its author's public recognition and is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism. Schopenhauer distinguishes the freedom of acting from the freedom of willing, affirming the former while denying the latter. He portrays human action as thoroughly determined but also argues that the freedom which cannot be established in the sphere of human action is preserved at the level of our innermost being as individuated will, whose reality transcends all dependency on outside factors. This volume offers the text in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F. J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together with a historical and philosophical introduction by Günter Zöller.

Plongez au coeur de la philosophie du XIXe siècle avec 400 citations sélectionnées pour traduire l''essentiel de la pensée de quatre figures incontournables. Philosophe , chrétien et séducteur, Soren Kierkegaard fut une influence majeure sur la théologie en même temps que sur la philosophie occidentale, entre autres par sa pensée de l''absurde et du désespoir existentiel. La philosophie de Nietzsche est radicale, parfois violente, souvent ironique et poétique ; aux antipodes de la pensée du libre-arbitre, Schopenhauer est une des figures fondamentales de l''idéalisme allemand. Enfin, l''oeuvre de Hegel est le sommet de la philosophie idéaliste allemande. Figure incontournable de l''Aufklärung (les Lumières), son influence a été décisive sur l''ensemble de la philosophie contemporaine. Ces 400 citations visent à donner accès à l''oeuvre monumentale de ces quatre grands philosophes, par une sélection de leurs pensées les plus marquantes, dans le respect de leur style et un format accessible à tous : l''idéal pour la préparation aux examens et aux concours (bac, capes, agrégation...), la culture générale et le développement personnel.

300 citations de philosophes idéalistes

400 citations des grands philosophes du XIXe siècle