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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.
ISBN-13

9780521872713

ISBN-10

0521872715

Weight

2.00 Pounds

Dimensions

6.50 x 2.00 x 9.50 In

List Price

$143.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

558 pages

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published On

2012-09-20


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