Schopenhauer: Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will

by Schopenhauer, Günter Zöller (Editor), Eric F. J. Payne (Translator)

Overview

Schopenhauer's Prize Essay is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism. He distinguishes the freedom of acting from the freedom of willing, affirming the former while denying the latter. This volume offers the text in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F.J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together with a historical and philosophical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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521571418
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/22/1999
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

1. Definitions; 2. The will before self-consciousness; 3. The will before the consciousness of other things; 4. Predecessors; 5. Conclusion and higher view.

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"Recommended for large university and public libraries; accessible to general readers, upper-division undergraduates, and above." Choice

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