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  3. Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2022
      September 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139025324
      9780521872713
      9781107559578
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139025324
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.93kg, 558 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.82kg, 558 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, European Literature, Philosophy Texts, Philosophy
      Series:
      The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer
      Collection:
      The Works of Schopenhauer
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    Subjects:
    Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, European Literature, Philosophy Texts, Philosophy
    Series:
    The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer
    Collection:
    The Works of Schopenhauer
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    This volume of 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.

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    'This new translation of three of Schopenhauer’s essays is of a very high quality and is testament to the customary rigor of the Cambridge Translations. Undoubtedly, this new edition will become in time the standard work of reference for English-speaking scholars worldwide.'

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