The World as Will and Representation
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The World as Will and Representation is Arthur Schopenhauer’s major philosophical work, presenting a pessimistic metaphysical system that interprets reality as driven by an irrational will and accessible to us through representation.
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book
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metaphysical treatise → non-fiction book → philosophical work → |
| author |
Arthur Schopenhauer
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| centralConcept |
representation as appearance
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will as thing-in-itself → |
| claims |
reality in itself is will
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the world we experience is representation → |
| continuedIn |
Volume 2 of The World as Will and Representation
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| countryOfOrigin |
Germany
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| firstEditionPublicationYear |
1818
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| firstPublisher |
Brockhaus
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| genre |
philosophy
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| hasPart |
Volume 1 of The World as Will and Representation
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Volume 2 of The World as Will and Representation → |
| influenced |
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jorge Luis Borges → Ludwig Wittgenstein → Richard Wagner → Thomas Mann → existentialism → literary modernism → psychoanalysis → |
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Buddhism
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Immanuel Kant → Plato → Upanishads → |
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German
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| mainTheme |
aesthetics
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ethics → metaphysics of will → pessimism → the world as representation → |
| originalTitle |
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
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| philosophicalTradition |
German idealism
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Schopenhauerian philosophy → |
| proposes |
art as a way to contemplate ideas beyond will
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asceticism as a denial of the will → |
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1818
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| secondEditionPublicationYear |
1844
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| structure |
four books in the first volume
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| subjectMatter |
aesthetics
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epistemology → ethics → metaphysics → |
| timePeriod |
19th century philosophy
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| viewpoint |
philosophical pessimism
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Referenced by (12)
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On the Freedom of the Will
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On the Will in Nature → |
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On the Freedom of the Will
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Parerga and Paralipomena → |
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On the Will in Nature
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Parerga and Paralipomena
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
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influenced |
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On the Will in Nature
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Arthur Schopenhauer
("world as will and representation")
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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The World as Will and Representation
("Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung")
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
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