Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings: Volume 4 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521872713)

This volume of new 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: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN-10: 0521872715
ISBN-13: 9780521872713
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2012
Pages: 558
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.60d