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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition)

Chapter 1: TWO ESSAYS BY ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER.
By Arthur Schopenhauer
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The first essay offers an analytic account of the principle that every fact requires a sufficient reason, distinguishing four distinct forms of that principle corresponding to different domains of explanation — grounding causation, the conditions of perception and spatial/mathematical relations, logical inference, and practical motivation — and showing how these forms delimit what can be known. The second essay treats natural phenomena as manifestations of a blind, striving will immanent in organisms and physical processes, arguing that teleology appears only as an expression of underlying will and exploring implications for biology, psychology, and the philosophy of nature.

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Title: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition)

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

Translator: Mme. Karl Hillebrand

Release date: January 19, 2016 [eBook #50966]
Most recently updated: October 22, 2024

Language: English

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BOHN'S PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY.

TWO ESSAYS
BY
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER.

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ON
THE FOURFOLD ROOT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON
AND
ON THE WILL IN NATURE.

TWO ESSAYS BY
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER.

Translated by Mme. KARL HILLEBRAND.

REVISED EDITION.

LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
1907

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TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.