Essays of Schopenhauer

This is the probably the best and most intellectually sober defense for determinism, i.e: that we have no free will whatsoever. Probably what makes this essay all the more powerful is that it was written in a scientifically "naive" time and it relies on arguments which are compelling because of how......more

I love Schopenhauer's exasperated tone. He struggles with what he perceives to be the idiocy of people who can't understand how obvious it is (to him) that the universe is deterministic in nature. His gratuitous swipe at Hegel in his survey of previous philosophical thinking on the subject is hilari......more

This gave me a pretty clear understanding of the necessity of cause and effect in the will. It left me searching for some meaning in my experience of free choice for which he reccomends one reads Kant. I'd say my separation between experience and reality is widening and that I'm begining to find pea......more

"A man do what he wills - but not will what he wills." Schopenhauer penned this essay in 1839 for a competition held by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences. This is an excellent and systematic rebuttal of the notion of Free Will, which Schopenhauer demonstrates from a variety of positions. He beg......more

Enorm helder werk dat goed tot de kern komt en een duidelijke argumentatie uiteenzet! Toch erg jammer van de vrouw onvriendelijke opmerkingen :(......more