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The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2 (The World as Will and Representation #2)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Paperback | Pages: 720 pages

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Original Title:	Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
ISBN:	0486217620 (ISBN13: 9780486217628)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The World as Will and Representation #2, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2

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Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work, and, conceived and published before the philosopher was 30 and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought.
For 70 years, the only unabridged English translation of this work was the Haldane-Kemp collaboration. In 1958, a new translation by E. F. J. Payne appeared which decisively supplanted the older one. Payne's translation is superior because it corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the Haldane-Kemp translation, and it is based on the definitive 1937 German edition of Schopenhauer's work prepared by Dr. Arthur Hübscher. Payne's edition is the first to translate into English the text's many quotatioins in half a dozen languages, and Mr. Payne has provided a comprehensive index of 2,500 items. It is thus the most useful edition for the student or teacher.

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Title	:	The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2 (The World as Will and Representation #2)
Author	:	Arthur Schopenhauer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 720 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1966 by Dover Publications (first published 1844)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. European Literature. German Literature

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Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will.

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Seven hundred pages of intimidatingly dense and brilliant metaphysics from the dour prince of philosophy. Written twenty-six years after the first volume, Schopenhauer expands on key themes of his metaphysical system, notably his ontology, epistemology and reflections on death and religion. The centerpiece of Schopenhauer's thought is his concept of the will, a blind and irrational urge underlying all material reality, realizing itself as phenomena engaged in an unceasing and violent struggle

If you have read the first book, then this second book is like the first book but explained in more details I actually enjoyed reading this one more, since all the foundations established in the first book were a bit hard to comprehend at the start, this book therefore goes over them again from a slight different angle. However I wrote the review for Volume 1 after reading both volumes so just to be clear, Schopenhauer, in Volume 2 goes more into details about his pessimistic view thats resulted

I will read it again as soon as winter settles in on my shoes.

More conversational in tone than the first volume, but at the same time not lacking in intellectual vigor. Another way of putting it is that volume 1 had more of a professorial tone of Kant, and volume 2 has more of the down to earth tone of Schopenhauer's essays.I also think that it bears mentioning that while of course this volume is better read as a whole with volume 1 and Schopenhauer's other works as he intended, it seems to me that the individual chapters could be read on their own as

My #2 fav book of all time. It's a complex read and it's very long, but Schopenhauer is a brain among brains. A very bleak and depressing look at existence and the originator of the phrase "The world is hell", Schopenhauer can be a tough pill to swallow. But his understanding of religions, eastern mysticism, philosophy and science make him a must read in understanding the things that drive me to do what they do.