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PARERGA AND PARALIPOMENA: SHORT PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
by Arthur Schopenhauer Translated from the German by E.F.J. Payne © Oxford University Press 1974
Vitam impendere vero juvenal, Sat. IV. 91 ["Dedicate one's life to truth"]
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Table of Contents:
VOLUME ONE
Translator's Introduction
Preface
Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real
Fragments for the History of Philosophy
On Philosophy at the Universities
Transcendent Speculation on the Apparent Deliberateness in the Fate of the Individual
Essay on Spirit Seeing and everything connected therewith
Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
Introduction
1. Fundamental Division
2. What a Man Is
3. What a Man Has
4. What a Man Represents
5. Counsels and Maxims
6. On the Different Periods of Life
VOLUME TWO
Stray yet systematically arranged thoughts on a variety of subjects
1. On Philosophy and its Method
2. On Logic and Dialectic
3. Ideas concerning the Intellect generally and in all Respects
4. Some Observations on the Antithesis of the Thing-in-Itself and the Phenomenon
5. A few Words on Pantheism
6. On Philosophy and Natural Science
7. On the Theory of Colours
8. On Ethics
9. On Jurisprudence and Politics
10. On the Doctrine of the Indestructibility of our True Nature by Death
11. Additional Remarks on the Doctrine of the Vanity of Existence
12. Additional Remarks on the Doctrine of the Suffering of the World
13. On Suicide
14. Additional Remarks on the Doctrine of the Affirmation and Denial of the Will-to-Live
15. On Religion
16. Some Remarks on Sanskrit Literature
17. Some Archaeological Observations
18. Some Mythological Observations
19. On the Metaphysics of the Beautiful and Aesthetics
20. On Judgement, Criticism, Approbation, and Fame
21. On Learning and the Learned
22. On Thinking for Oneself
23. On Authorship and Style
24. On Reading and Books
25. On Language and Words
26. Psychological Remarks
27. On Women
28. On Education
29. On Physiognomy
30. On Din and Noise
31. Similes, Parables, and Fables
Some Verses
Selected Bibliography
Index