Arthur Schopenhauer
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El arte de tener siempre razón
"La dialéctica erística es el arte de la controversia, dirigida de tal manera de tener siempre razón aunque se esté equivocado. Por consiguiente, el interés de la verdad, si bien en general debiera ser el único motivo para afirmar la tesis probablemente justa, cede terreno al interés de la vanidad: lo verdadero debe parecer falso y lo falso verdadero."
Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1-3)
"The World as Will and Idea" is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Taking the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant as his starting point, Schopenhauer argues that the world we experience around us – the world of objects in space and time and related in causal ways – exists solely as «representation» dependent on a cognizing subject, not as a world that can be considered to exist in itself. Our knowledge of objects is thus knowledge of mere phenomena rather than things-in-themselves. Schopenhauer identifies the thing-in-itself – the inner essence of everything – as will: a blind, unconscious, aimless striving devoid of knowledge, outside of space and time, and free of all multiplicity. The world as representation is, therefore, the «objectification» of the will. «The World as Will and Idea» marked the pinnacle of Schopenhauer's philosophical thought; he spent the rest of his life refining, clarifying, and deepening the ideas presented in this work without any fundamental changes. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
