Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosopher of Pessimism

Professor Copleston first examines the philosophic situation in which Schopenhauer conceived his world-view. Then, after a precise survey of Schopenhauer's life and his peculiar combination of classicism and romanticism, he presents in sequence the main notions of the philosopher of pessimism: from life as dream and tragedy, through the 'escape routes' of aesthetic contemplation and denial of the will, to the Schopenhauerian concepts of morality and freedom, virtue and holiness, and finally salvation in recognising that ‘if the existent is evil, it follows that value must be sought in a tending away from the existent. Thus the supreme value will be - paradoxically enough - nothingness.'

Published 1975, Search Press Limited Book.

Binding of the book is slightly intact. Slightly sunned dust jacket with moderate shelfwear and some foxing. Some shelfwear on covers of book. Some tanning and foxing on edges of book. Slight foxing on endpapers. Very little foxing on certain pages, otherwise in good condition.