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May 30, 1973 · Arthur Schopenhauer wrote his essays and aphorisms in the financial hub city of Frankford, Germany during the mid-nineteenth century, a world where business owners and financiers ruthlessly competed against one another to amass fortunes, clerks chained to their desks toiled twelve hours a day, uneducated day laborers ground themselves down into ...
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Arthur Schopenhauer wrote his essays and aphorisms in the financial hub city of Frankford, Germany during the mid-nineteenth century, a world where business owners and financiers ruthlessly competed against one another to amass fortunes, clerks chained to their desks toiled twelve hours a day, uneducated day laborers ground themselves down into faceless, mindless cogs of the urban wheel, and ...
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May 12, 2010 · Essays and aphorisms Bookreader Item Preview ... Essays and aphorisms by Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860; Hollingdale, R. J., tr. Publication date 1970 Topics
Aug 26, 2004 · Books. Essays and Aphorisms. Arthur Schopenhauer. Penguin UK, Aug 26, 2004 - Philosophy - 256 pages. One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence.
His fame was established in 1851 with the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena, a collection of dialogues, essays and aphorisms. He died in 1860. R.J. Hollingdale has translated works by, among others, Schopenhauer, Goethe, T.A. Hoffmann, Lichtenburg and Theodor Fontane, as well as eleven of Nietzsche's books, many for the Penguin Classics.
Books. Essays and Aphorisms. Arthur Schopenhauer. Penguin Publishing Group, 1970 - Fiction - 237 pages. One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788–1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by ‘will’ – the blind and irrational desire for physical existence.
About Essays and Aphorisms. This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Schopenhauer’s last work, Parerga and Paralipo-mena, published in 1851. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
