Title
Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
Call Number
B 3118 .E5 S485 1899
Date of Publication
1899
Collection Size
1 bound volume; 146 pages
Restrictions
Open under the rules and regulations of the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections
Language
English
Historical Note
Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), wherein he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable metaphysical will.
Files
Download Religion A Dialogue - Contents (62 KB)
Description
A disciple of Kant and a significant factor in shaping Nietzsche's thinking, Arthur Schopenhauer worked from the foundation that reality is but an extension of our own will, and that human life is characterized chiefly by misery. Please see the attached Contents page.
Provenance
Winthrop purchased the volume.
Publisher
Swan Sonnenschein, Macmillan & Co.
City
London & New York
Keywords
Philosophy, Religion, German Philosophers
Disciplines
Metaphysics | Philosophy | Philosophy of Mind
Recommended Citation
Schopenhauer, Arthur and Saunders, T. Bailey M.A., "Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays" (1899). Rare Books. 76.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/rarebooks/76
Additional Notes
Original accession number 169317