An edition of Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (1888)

The wisdom of life

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An edition of Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (1888)

The wisdom of life

and other essays

[Ed. deluxe]
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  • 15 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

Nineteenth-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) championed individual strength of will and independent, reasoned deliberation above the irrational impulses that animated most of society. In The Wisdom of Life, taken from his last work, Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), he discusses how to order our lives to obtain the greatest amount of pleasure and success; then he offers guidelines for living life to its fullest. But for Schopenhauer a life well lived should always reach beyond itself to a higher plane.

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M. W. Dunne
Language
English
Pages
332

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Table of Contents

The wisdom of life.
Sketch of a history of the doctrine of the ideal and real.
Fragments of the history of philosophy.
On philosophy and its method.
Some reflections on the antithesis of thing-in-itself and phenomenon.
Some words on pantheism.
On ethics.
On the doctrine of the indestructibility of our true nature by death.
On suicide.
Contributions to the doctrine of the affirmation and negation of the will-to-live.

Edition Notes

Title within colored ornamental borders.

Published in
New York & London
Series
Universal classics library

Classifications

Library of Congress
B3118.E5 S5, PN6013 .U58 vol. 5

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 332 p.
Number of pages
332

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6906622M
Internet Archive
wisdomoflife01scho
LCCN
01015186
OCLC/WorldCat
2868597, 1006744711
Library Thing
812895

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