Schopenhauer

2020 · 9786051911564-2025 — Alter Yayincilik 2020. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Arthur Schopenhauer</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Alter Yayincilik</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9786051911564</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2020</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 112</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Paperback. 1350 / 2100 cm. In English. 112 p. Translated by T. Bailey Saunders M. A. In these pages I shall speak of The Wisdom of Life in the common meaning o the term as the art namely of ordering our lives so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success; an art the theory of which may be called Eudaemonology for it teaches us how to lead a happy existence. Such an existence might perhaps be defined as one which looked at from a purely objective point of view or rather after cool and mature reflection for the question necessarily involves subjective considerations would be decidedly preferable to non-existence; implying that we should cling to it for its own sake and not merely from the fear of death; and further that we should never like it to come to an end. Now whether human life corresponds or could possibly correspond to this conception of existence is a question to which as is well-known my philosophical system returns a negative answer. On the eudaemonistic hypothesis however the question must be answered in the affirmative; and I have shown in the second volume of my chief work ch. 49 that this hypothesis is based upon a fundamental mistake. Accordingly in elaborating the scheme of a happy existence I have had to make a complete surrender of the higher metaphysical and ethical standpoint to which my own theories lead; and everything I shall say here will to some extent rest upon a compromise; in so far that is as I take the common stand point of every day and embrace the error which is at the bottom of it. My remarks therefore will possess only a qualified value for the very word eudaemonology is a euphemism. Further I make no claims to completeness; partly because the subject is inexhaustible and partly because Is hold otherwise have to say over again what has been already said by others.</p> Alter Yayincilik hardcover