Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Suffic... - 9780521872713

Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other WritingsAuthor(s): Arthur Schopenhauer, David E. Cartwright, Edward E. Erdmann, Christopher Janaway\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521872713, 978-0521872713\nSynopsis\nThis 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.