Schopenhauer

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-193) and index.

PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: The Philosophy of a Nonconformist (1788-1860) I. The Unsettled Years: 1788-1831II. The Stable Years: 1833-1860Part I: Schopenhauer's Theoretical PhilosophyChapter Two: Historical BackgroundI. Mind-Dependent Qualities vs. Mind-Independent QualitiesII. Space and TimeChapter Three: The Principle of Sufficient Reason I. The Root of All ExplanationII The Four Basic Forms of ExplanationChapter Four: Schopenhauer's Idealism and his Criticism of Kant I. The Rejection of a Mind-Independent RealityII. Kant's Theory of PerceptionIII. Kant's Use of the Term "Object"IV. The Logic of ManifestationChapter Five: The World in Itself as a Meaningless and Almighty Will I. Universal SubjectivityII. The World as WillIII. The Two-Tiered Objectification of the Will: Platonic Ideas and Spatio-Temporal IndividualsChapter Six: Critical Interpretations of the World as Will I. Scientific Knowledge, Philosophical Knowledge and Mystical KnowledgeII. Regular Time Versus the Eternal PresentPart II: Schopenhauer's Practical PhilosophyChapter Seven: Endless Suffering in the Daily World I. A Universal Will Without PurposeII. The Purposelessness of Schopenhauer's Thing-in-ItselfIII. Life as Embittering: Schopenhauer and BuddhismChapter Eight: Tranquillity I: Sublimity, Genius and Aesthetic ExperienceI. Platonic Ideas and Aesthetic ExperienceII. Artistic Genius and the Communication Theory of ArtIII. The Hierarchy of the Visual and Verbal ArtsIV. Tragedy and SublimityV. Music and Metaphysical ExperienceChapter Nine: Tranquillity II: Christlike Virtue and Moral Awareness I. Empathy as the Foundation of Moral AwarenessII. Intelligible, Empirical and Acquired CharacterIII. Humanity's Sublime AnguishChapter Ten: Tranquillity III: Asceticism, Mysticism and BuddhismI. The Possibility of the Denial-of-the-WillII. Christian Quietism, Yogic Ecstasy, and Buddhist EnlightenmentIII. Asceticism and Spiritual PurificationPart III: Schopenhauer in PerspectiveChapter Eleven: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Eternal LifeI. The Question of Life's ValueII. Funereal Imagery and Nietzsche's Theory of TragedyIII. Schopenhauer's Moral Awareness and Eternal RecurrenceIV. The Eternalistic Illusion of Supreme HealthV. Nietzsche's Madness and Eternalistic ConsciousnessChapter Twelve: Schopenhauer, Hegel and Alienated LaborI. The World's Essence: Rational or Irrational?II. Labor, Imprisonment and ChristianityIII. The World as Will and Representation and "Self-Consciousness" in Hegel'sPhenomenologyPart IV: Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein and the UnspeakableI. The Quest for Absolute ValueII. What the Philosophical Investigations Cannot SayConclusion: Idealism and the Will to Peace I. The Plausibility of Schopenhauer's IdealismII. The Explanatory Weakness of a Blind and Senseless WillIII. The Prospect of PeaceBibliography.