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# Schopenhauer: 'The World as Will and Representation': Volume 1 (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer)

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Review: Five Stars - an excellent work.
Review: A Translation for Our Generation - If you are familiar with Schopenhauer you are undoubtedly interested in how this translation stacks up against Eric Payne's... If you aren't and want to get to the meat of his philosophy, you have come to the right place. This is his magnum opus, with the forthcoming second volume containing supplementary essays. This book unveils his metaphysical system, which forms the backbone of his thought. If you are merely seeking his various and well-known rants on art, women, noise, etc., then you are looking for the two-volume Parerga and Paralipomena, which has also been edited into myriad smaller books multitudinous times. The World as Will and Representation would never survive such a butchering. Schopenhauer is massively misunderstood, misquoted, and quoted out of context. It is unfair to containerize his philosphy in short form, but I'll give an honest attempt. He picks up where he feels Kant left off, with the world as representation, which is to say mental picture. It is a biological fact that our brains receive a "feed" of sensory data through the nerves, and build a picture from it, which is the world we know. The problem then becomes, what, if anything, is the real world, the "thing in itself," apart from being represented in the mind? Space, time, and cause/effect thus become merely the "program" that our minds use to build this representation, and we have no reason to believe that they are valid outside of it. Even science cannot penetrate this veil. Schopenhauer's answer to the nature of the thing in itself is actually quite simple: our will. The desires and emotions we experience play out in time but not in space, and are the inner mechanism of causality. They are the direct line to ultimate reality, which he characterizes as an infinite striving. Applying this then to the rest of nature, he sees it in animals, plants, magnetism, gravity, and energy itself. Like white light through a prism the blind and indivisible will manifests itself through space and time as every single phenomenon in the universe, yourself included. Multiplicity is thus seen as an illusion, and death becomes a moot point. And as for the translation? I don't speak German but whereas Payne's translation was perhaps more literary and fluid, this is more modern, more technical, and definitely more particular. I am very familiar with the older translation and I feel that this one is considerably more careful. Between that fact and the supplementary notes I do believe it is currently definitive.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #92,148 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #17 in History of Philosophy #105 in Modern Western Philosophy |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (49) |
| Dimensions  | 5.99 x 1.57 x 9.02 inches |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| ISBN-10  | 1107414776 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1107414778 |
| Item Weight  | 2.18 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 696 pages |
| Publication date  | June 5, 2014 |
| Publisher  | Cambridge University Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by M***S on July 21, 2017*

an excellent work.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Translation for Our Generation
*by E***L on February 11, 2011*

If you are familiar with Schopenhauer you are undoubtedly interested in how this translation stacks up against Eric Payne's... If you aren't and want to get to the meat of his philosophy, you have come to the right place. This is his magnum opus, with the forthcoming second volume containing supplementary essays. This book unveils his metaphysical system, which forms the backbone of his thought. If you are merely seeking his various and well-known rants on art, women, noise, etc., then you are looking for the two-volume Parerga and Paralipomena, which has also been edited into myriad smaller books multitudinous times. The World as Will and Representation would never survive such a butchering. Schopenhauer is massively misunderstood, misquoted, and quoted out of context. It is unfair to containerize his philosphy in short form, but I'll give an honest attempt. He picks up where he feels Kant left off, with the world as representation, which is to say mental picture. It is a biological fact that our brains receive a "feed" of sensory data through the nerves, and build a picture from it, which is the world we know. The problem then becomes, what, if anything, is the real world, the "thing in itself," apart from being represented in the mind? Space, time, and cause/effect thus become merely the "program" that our minds use to build this representation, and we have no reason to believe that they are valid outside of it. Even science cannot penetrate this veil. Schopenhauer's answer to the nature of the thing in itself is actually quite simple: our will. The desires and emotions we experience play out in time but not in space, and are the inner mechanism of causality. They are the direct line to ultimate reality, which he characterizes as an infinite striving. Applying this then to the rest of nature, he sees it in animals, plants, magnetism, gravity, and energy itself. Like white light through a prism the blind and indivisible will manifests itself through space and time as every single phenomenon in the universe, yourself included. Multiplicity is thus seen as an illusion, and death becomes a moot point. And as for the translation? I don't speak German but whereas Payne's translation was perhaps more literary and fluid, this is more modern, more technical, and definitely more particular. I am very familiar with the older translation and I feel that this one is considerably more careful. Between that fact and the supplementary notes I do believe it is currently definitive.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best Translation
*by A***R on January 29, 2024*

Generally, I do not rate items as five stars since that means the product far exceeded my expectations. Many reviewers rate an item as five stars simply because it meets their expectations, but that is a three-star rating for me. I have to give this Cambridge edition a rare five-star rating. The translation is fantastic, the introduction is superb, and the notes are above average. By far, this is the best translation of the work, and it is worth the extra money you will spend. If this is the first time reading Schopenhauer, I highly recommend reading On The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason before starting this. Follow his advice in the preface to volume one

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