Arthur Schopenhauer

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The Art of Controversy is an acidulous, sarcastic treatise written by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and first published in 1831. In it, Schopenhauer examines a total of thirty-eight methods of defeating one's opponent in a debate. He introduces his essay with the idea that philosophers have concentrated in ample measure on the rules of logic, but have not (especially since the time of Immanuel Kant) engaged with the darker art of the dialectic, of controversy. Whereas the purpose of logic is classically said to be a method of arriving at the truth, dialectic, says Schopenhauer, "...on the other hand, would treat of the intercourse between two rational beings who, because they are rational, ought to think in common, but who, as soon as they cease to agree like two clocks keeping exactly the same time, create a disputation, or intellectual contest."

Reproduktion des Originals: Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit von Arthur Schopenhauer

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Världen som vilja och föreställning är Arthur Schopenhauers stora, filosofiska livsverk. Hans filosofi erbjuder en världsåskådning, ett sätt att betrakta tillvaron i dess helhet, utifrån en metafysisk grund. Hos honom kombineras västerländsk filosofi med österländsk mysticism. Världen är, för Schopenhauer, vilja och strid, förnuftet bara ett parasitärt bihang till en irrationell och instinktmässigt framvällande vilja. Lidandet är ofrånkomligt, men självförnekelse, estetisk kontemplation och medlidande kan erbjuda lindring. En lång rad filosofer och tänkare däribland Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein och Cioran har tagit starkt intryck av Schopenhauers tänkande. Samtidigt har hans verk i hög grad beundrats av och influerat konstnärer och diktare som Richard Wagner och Thomas Mann, liksom efterföljare som Michel Houellebecq. Även om Schopenhauer mer än någon annan kommit att representera den filosofiska pessimismen, är mycket av hans filosofi ägnad åt levnadskonst, åt hur lidande kan övervinnas. Den föreliggande utgåvan återger Efraim Skölds översättning från 1916, moderniserad och redaktionellt granskad och bearbetad. Karl Karlander, universitetslektor i filosofi vid Stockholms universitet, har försett boken med ett nyskrivet förord.

Je prends ici la notion de la sagesse dans la vie dans son acception immanente, c'est- -dire que j'entends par l l'art de rendre la vie aussi agr able et aussi heureuse que possible. Cette tude pourrait s'appeler galement l'Eud monologie; ce serait donc un trait de la vie heureuse. Celle-ci pourrait son tour tre d finie une existence qui, consid r e au point de vue purement ext rieur ou plut t (comme il s'agit ici d'une appr ciation subjective) qui, apr s froide et m re r flexion, est pr f rable la non-existence. La vie heureuse, ainsi d finie, nous attacherait elle par elle-m me et pas seulement par la crainte de la mort; il en r sulterait en outre que nous d sirerions la voir durer ind finiment...

... Quoi qu'il en soit, il y a chez Schopenhauer autre chose et mieux, nous le savons de reste, que ces parties haineuses et rancuni res. Tel critique exigeant a pu pr tendre qu'il ne nous apporte rien qu'on n'ait su avant lui. C'est possible, et lui-m me a dit que les meilleures choses sont rarement neuves. En tout cas, il renouvelle l'aspect obsol te des vieilles v rit s, et la logique vigoureuse, l'abondance in puisable de d monstrations et de preuves avec lesquelles il les r dite, leur enl vent leurs rides s culaires et les font r appara tre dans leur primitive fra cheur...

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First published in 1851, "The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims" is a collection of essays by famed German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. He is perhaps best known for his 1818 work "The World as Will and Representation" and developed an enduring reputation for his philosophical pessimism, in contrast to the idealism of Immanuel Kant. Much of Schopenhauer's work is a reaction to post-Kant German romanticism. In "The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims", two of Schopenhauer's well-known essays are brought together and explore the thoughts behind his more realistic and pessimistic worldview. He rejects the usual goals in life of money, fame, pride, social position, and material and physical pleasures in favor of development of one's inner mind and a strong and healthy body. Schopenhauer was one of the first Western philosophers to embrace Eastern and Buddhist thought and his preference for a more meditative and ascetic life is evident in these essays. While Schopenhauer is well-known for his critical and pessimistic philosophy, his writing style is warm, entertaining, and charming, while at the same time being full of profound thought and substance. "The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims" remains an engaging and thoughtful discourse on life and happiness. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Artur Shopengauer - velikij nemetskij filosof-mizantrop. Zakorenelyj kholostjak i bolshoj ljubitel svobody. Odin iz samykh izvestnykh v mire myslitelej irratsionalizma. Nazyval okruzhajuschij ego mir "naikhudshim iz vozmozhnykh", za chto i poluchil prozvische "filosof pessimizma". Gluboko issledoval prirodu cheloveka vo vsekh ee projavlenijakh, izuchal motivatsiju postupkov i zhelanija ljudej... Stil ego pisma prozvali aforistichnym, bessmertnye tsitaty zlobodnevny i segodnja i stojat togo, chtoby ikh prochli.