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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Schopenhauer"”.
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Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism
In the following thesis I outline Schopenhauer’s ethics in its metaphysical context and in contrast to ethics based on egoism. I look at criticisms of Schopenhauer’s philosophy which have emerged quite recently, and some of which (if valid) would undermine Schopenhauer’s compassion-based moral …
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Beyond the kinship of pessimism: Beckett’s Schopenhauer
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Immortalizing the Human Spirit: Analyzing Faulkner through Schopenhauer
… Faulkner's work through the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, namely the latter's view of reality as will and representation, or truth and illusive manifestation. Ultimately, this endeavor leads to the discovery that Faulkner used literature to commemorate and immortalize the human spirit in its …
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Exploring Emptiness: Beckett and Buddhism via Arthur Schopenhauer
… so in the light of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s understanding of Eastern philosophy. Beckett read Schopenhauer closely in the 1930s, late 1970s and early 1980s, taking notes from his work in the so-called ‘Whoroscope Notebook’ of the 1930s and the later ‘Sottisier Notebooks’ …
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Schopenhauer's Pessimism and Kant's Moral Argument
… Moral Argument gives good grounds to reject Schopenhauer's pessimism. I begin by defining pessimism as the view that "life is not choiceworthy," and dispelling some initial objections to it. Having established that pessimism doesn't succumb to obvious objections, I develop three lines of …
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Schopenhauer und Nietzsche : negative und positive Freiheit durch Anerkennung ; eine Untersuchung struktureller Parallelen und Differenzen in der Konzeption der Verhältnisse Ich - Welt, Ich - Zeit, Ich - Dialektik
Die hier digital veröffentlichte Dissertation: Schopenhauer und Nietzsche. Negative und Positive Freiheit durch Anerkennung, zielt darauf, darzustellen und herauszuarbeiten, wie Nietzsche -orientiert am Leitfaden seiner intensiven und unaufhörlichen Auseinandersetzung mit Schopenhauers Willen zum …
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The artist as sacrificial in Schopenhauer's philosophy
This thesis examines a potential tension between Schopenhauer’s portrayal of art as a palliative measure undertaken in response to a fundamentally and necessarily painful existence, and the implicit image he sketches of the artist as suffering in order to precipitate this palliative measure. I …
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Schopenhauer's Buddhism: A Historical-Philosophical Inquiry
My thesis is about Schopenhauer’s conception of Buddhism and the impact of Buddhism on his thought. It closely considers the Buddhist texts Schopenhauer read, with the aim of showing that Schopenhauer adopted a particular reading of Buddhism and that this reading partly influenced his philosophy, …
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The metaphysical and poetical universe of A. A. Fet
… as ""Afterword of A.A. Fet to his translation of Schopenhauer"" published posthumously in 1901 in the journal Russian Review (Russkoe Obozrenie) have served as additional material to substantiate this point or view."
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The music of architecture
… has to do with how it involves you in it. Arthur Schopenhauer also says: "The effect of music on the mind, so penetrating, so immediate, so unfailing, and also the after-effect that sometimes follows it, consisting in a specially sublime frame of mind, are explained by the passive nature of …
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"Schattenhaft" in Mahler's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies: An Examination of a Passage in Adorno's Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy
… use of this marking, which connect it to Schopenhauer and Romantic aesthetics, provide the framework for an examination of possible meanings of these two passages in Mahler. Drawing also on references elsewhere in Adorno's book to stylistic and formal features peculiar to Mahler's music, …
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In the Shadow of Anaximander: Philosophical Temperaments and Schopenhauerian Pessimism in Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
… and the attempt to deal with the pessimism of Schopenhauer. The former problem is examined by viewing the Pre-Platonic philosophers as "philosophical archetypes" whose "unmixed" outlooks are the result of their monolithic characters. These primordial philosophical types have recurred throughout …
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Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility
… Naturphilosophie movement, such as Goethe and Schopenhauer. There are deep, but often overlooked, resonances between these seemingly disparate traditions and contemporary biology that are located in the conflict between the developing organism and the ever-fluctuating environment. The …
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The Importance of the Concept of Conscience-Collective in Emile Durkheim's Thought: A Theoretical and Historical Analysis
… to the thinking of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Significant parallels are shown to exist between Schopenhauer's notion of representation in The World as Will and Idea and Durkheim's pivotal concept of common moral bond or conscience as discussed in The Division of Labor in Society. …
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Mahler's Third Symphony and the Languages of Transcendence
… concepts from Nietzsche and his beloved Arthur Schopenhauer. In studying the treatment of language in these culminating movements, this thesis shows how Nietzsche’s metaphysical philosophies help listeners encounter and transcend Schopenhauer’s Will at the climactic end of the Third Symphony.
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Understanding ourselves: character and self-knowledge in Conrad and Shopenhauer
That Conrad was familiar with Schopenhauer’s philosophy has been proposed by literary scholars and seconded, in passing, by philosophers. This has resulted in one-way studies of literary influence. This thesis is instead a two-way study in the philosophy of literature. It shows how Schopenhauer’s …
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Hearing the Sublime: Signification of the Sublime in Solo Piano Literature of the Nineteenth Century
… Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805), and Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860), with references to other contemporary philosophers and writers. The broader influence of the sublime in regards to German-speaking regions and certain musical composers was also considered. I then gathered from the above …
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