Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings

Arthur Schopenhauer; David E. Cartwright; Edward E. Erdmann; Christopher Janaway

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Edited and translated by David E. Cartwright, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Edward E. Erdmann, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Christopher Janaway, University of Southampton

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2022
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9781139025324
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139025324

Subjects:: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, European Literature, Philosophy Texts, Philosophy
Series:: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer
Collection:: The Works of Schopenhauer

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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.

'This new translation of three of Schopenhauer’s essays is of a very high quality and is testament to the customary rigor of the Cambridge Translations. Undoubtedly, this new edition will become in time the standard work of reference for English-speaking scholars worldwide.'

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

General Editor’s Preface
pp vii-ix

Editorial Notes and References
pp x-xi

Introduction
pp xii-liv

Notes on Text and Translation
pp lv-lix

Chronology
pp lx-lxii

Bibliography
pp lxiii-lxvi

Collation of the Two Editions of On the Fourfold Root
pp lxvii-lxx

1 - On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
pp 1-2

Preface
pp 3-4

Contents
pp 5-6

First Chapter - Introduction
pp 7-10

Second Chapter - Survey of What is Most Important in Previous Teachings About the Principle of Sufficient Reason
pp 11-28

Third Chapter - Inadequacy of Previous Accounts and Sketchof a New One
pp 29-32

Fourth Chapter - On the First Class of Objects for the Subject and the Form of the Principle of Sufficient Reason Governing in It
pp 33-92

Fifth Chapter - On the Second Class of Objects for the Subject and the form of the Principle of Sufficient Reason Governing in it
pp 93-122

Sixth Chapter - On the Third Class of Objects for the Subject and the Form of the Principle of Sufficient Reason Governing in It
pp 123-132

Seventh Chapter - On the Fourth Class of Objects for the Subject and the form of the Principle of Sufficient Reason Governing in it
pp 133-142

Eighth Chapter - General Remarks and Results
pp 143-152

Variants in Different Editions
pp 153-198

2 - On Vision and Colours
pp 199-200

Preface to the Second Edition
pp 201-204

Contents
pp 205-206

Introduction
pp 207-212

First Chapter - On Vision
pp 213-224

Second Chapter - On Colours
pp 225-287

Variants in Different Editions
pp 288-302

3 - On Will in Nature
pp 303-304

Preface
pp 305-320

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