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On the Principle of Sufficient Reason

On the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Paperback

Series: Great Books in Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1591023831
ISBN13: 9781591023838
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: Apr 1 2006
Pages: 189
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
Schopenhauer's analyses of causation and related concepts ... rival and probably surpass in their depth and brilliance the more celebrated discussions of David Hume. Where Hume grossly oversimplified these problems and left them riddled with paradoxes, Schopenhauer disentangled them and shed light on what had seemed hopelessly dark - Richard TaylorThis little-known work by the famous German pessimist and critic of Hegel was originally written as a doctoral dissertation when Schopenhauer was just twenty-six, but it was later revised when the philosopher was sixty. So important did he consider this work, originally titled On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, that he often underscored the fact that no one could hope to understand his magnum opus, The World as Will and Representation, without having first read this work. Schopenhauer takes up where Kant left off in response to Hume, and his insights into the nature of perception and understanding remain amazingly relevant and still unsurpassed.Our knowing consciousness, which manifests itself as outer and inner sensibility (or receptivity) and as understanding and reason, subdivides itself into subject and object and contains nothing else. To be object for the subject and to be our representation are the same thing. All our representations stand towards one another in a regulated connection, which may be determined a priori, and on account of which nothing existing separately and independently, nothing single or detached, can become an object for us. It is this connection which is expressed by the Principle of Sufficient Reason in its generality. - chapter 3, 16

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