Arthur told us to read this as the introduction to The World as Will and Representation, and boy was he right. Schopenhauer explains his treatment of Kant's philosophy so succinctly that WWR is really an exposition of what is written here. The strangest thing about Schopenhauer to me when i first approached him was his fixation on causality. You don't find a lot of thinkers so fascinated with the principle of sufficient reason. It is usually taken as a given. But it does form the basis of his wh...

به گمانم بيشتر خوانندگان اين كتاب مسير مشابهي را پيموده اند كه از مقدمه ي "جهان همچون اراده و تصور" مي گذرد، جايي كه شوپنهاور مطالعه ي "ريشه..." را پيش نياز ضروري آغاز اثر عظيم مي داند. همان جا پيش نياز ديگر آشنايي با فلسفه ي كانت بيان مي شود كه بدون شك پيش نياز كمابيش ضروري اثر حاضر نيز هست؛ دستكم بايد تعريف لغتنامه اي بعضي اصطلاحات او مانند پيشيني و پسيني يا گزاره هاي تحليلي و تركيبي را دانست تا بعضي قسمت ها بيش از اندازه نامفهوم نباشند.همان طور كه مترجم فارسي در مقدمه ي كوتاهش اشاره مي كند خو...

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There is probably no better explanation of Transcendental Idealism than Schopenhauer's On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Schopenhauer was an incredibly skilled philosopher, with a cutting wit as sharp as his intellect. He comes across a bit petty when he criticizes Hegel. But if you've ever tried to study Hegel you'll find his frustration with the other philosopher quite understandable.

I have very rarely read a book that I could feel changing my internal architecture page by page. Many other people have said this, but with Schopenhauer, I feel like I'm seeing my own thoughts and most deeply held convictions elucidated with an order and precision I could never achieve myself. I haven't even cracked "Will and Idea" yet, and already, Schope's notions of perception, thought, eternity, universal personhood, etc. etc. have changed the way I see the world. Schopenhauer walks such a f...

I have just finished reading both titles in this hideous volume that I bought through Amazon books titled "On the Fourfold Root of he Principle of Sufficient Reason" by Arthur Schopenhauer. I call it hideous because the printing standards are low. The publisher is such a nonentity that they don't have a webpage. The publisher hasn't even taken credit for their work anywhere on the book. It is just listed as Davies Press in the Amazon description. These are odd behaviors for any business wanting

I have read it as a supplement to Kant's first critique. It is not an easy work to understand, there are some random rants against ppl such as Hegel which overdoes it and makes you think deeper about *what* the content of the critique really is.

Schopenhauer finds it necessary to rescue noumena causa from Kant by calibrating our human experience to these four grounds of causation. These four grounds for Schopenhauer arise naturally due to different cuts in reasoning's consistency. Admittedly these grounds are somewhat arbitrary, but he is unable to find much connection between these grounds except for their ability to highlight concepts. In this Schopenhauer is very much a follower of Kant.I, too, do sometimes find Kant to be too airy.

Zunächst sollte man mal erwähnen, dass, wenn der große Schopenhauer darauf verzichtet hätte, seine Rivalen vom sogenannten "philosophischen Gewerbe" in der hier vorliegenden Ausführlichkeit zu beschimpfen, dieses Buch wohl nur zwei Drittel seiner Seitenzahl ausgefüllt hätte. Während die Tiraden anfangs noch ziemlich unterhaltsam zu lesen sind, drängt sich im weiteren Verlauf immer mehr das Bild eines verbitterten Alten auf, der trotz seines sich ankündigenden Nachruhms nicht verkraften kann, das...

I would exhort any potential reader to first familiarize themselves with Kant's First Critique (or perhaps the Prolegomena) up to at least a superficial level, although ideally a thorough one. After all, Schopenhauer did -- in another work -- say:"Whosoever has not read and understood Kant is but a child."The "Principle of Sufficient Reason" was perhaps best described by Leibniz when he wrote "nihil est sin ratione" (nothing is without reason); everything occurs for a reason, and Schopenhauer se...

The principle of sufficient reason is one of the great metaphysical controversies that has engaged philosophers from Aristotle to Spinoza. Simply put, the principle states that for everything that exists, there is a sufficient reason for why it exists and not otherwise. Schopenhauer's critical interpretation of the principle identifies the basic condition for both the applications of the principle and knowledge of the phenomenal world in general: the presence of a subject apprehending an object....

I'm not going to give this a rating until I familiarize myself more with Leibniz and Kant's philosophies, and what exactly is Schopenhauer's polemic against Kant's Critique. Some chapters come alive with wild imagery, with no reference points needed. The only reason I read this is because I started to read The World as W&R, and he tells the reader to stop reading unless they're familiar with "On the Principle," so I went and found it online and read it a lot faster than I thought I would, but a

Going to the midnight premiere of this dressed as Ground of Being

This is a wonderful work of philosophy. I am not familiar enough with current accounts of causation or objections to Schopenhauer's account to know why he's "wrong" (which I'm sure he is in parts), but this came off to me as a penetrating and perhaps even still relevant account of the different forms of causation. Schopenhauer's brand of idealism elucidated here, and how that idealism relates to the PSR, seems wholly in keeping with the developments of predictive processing theories and contempo...

Schopenhauer has some neat elaborations on Kant and corrects him on his negligence on the fact of our embodiment. However, this text wasn't the most gripping piece of canon work that I've read, and I've found that reading secondary literature on Schopenhauer is sufficient. Kant has made the primary contributions, and Schopenhauer adds a tiny bit, which can be learned through summaries.

My brain hurts. Phenomenology has never really been my favorite subject, but it is interesting seeing this connection develop here. I am going through all of Schopenhauer's works. He refers to this at the key to his system, but I am much more interested in his ethics and aesthetics work.

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Extremely clear and well argued positions. Schopenhauer is an instant favourite.

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Two of the three essays contained in the Cambridge Edition are helpful to understanding Schopenhauer’s magnum opus “The World and Will as Representation.” The first essay “On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason” contains an analysis of previous philosophers’ misguided applications of the principle via insightful critiques of Kant, Hume, Berkeley, and Aristotle. The reader will gain a general understanding of Schopenhauer’s epistemology as well as a glimpse of his metaphysical...

EVENTAL FORMULATIONS: This book sits at the pinnacle of Philosophy for what it does in logical foundations along this sequence of intellectual developments from Cartesian Consciousness, to Leibnizian Freedom, to Humean Associationism, to Kantian Representationalism, to Schopenhauerean Tetrism.Continental, Pragmaticist, and Analytic traditions afterward are ways to get at and go deeper with Schopenhauerean Tetrism. As such, all prior philosophy looks forward to this book AS A NEXUS and all subseq...

Such an important book and Dodo Press must be applauded for re-editing it. However, the proof reading has been abominable. Examples: page 69 and 70, where the Greek text appears in some surrealistic gibberish, obviously translated by a computer into ASCHI language, or whatever computers use. Translations of the Latin and French texts as well as the Ancient Greek would have been a useful addition as well.

I am reading on the Will in Nature: A Literal currently. Previously, I enjoyed on the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.

has important information about causation

Great read

Well written. Work of a genius

Besides liking the book as a whole, I really enjoyed the asides here and there where he paused the book to either declare his love for Kant or his hatred for Hegel.