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  <title><![CDATA[The World as Will and Representation, 1 of 2]]></title>
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  <default_description>Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For the first time, this edition translates and locates all quotes and provides full index.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Arthur Schopenhauer]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone interested in human nature.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1977</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is fair to suggest that Schopenhauer recorded the first and still unsurpassed critigue of human nature.  A hundred years ago, he was vastly influential.  Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann, Leo Tolstoy, Nietzsche and Freud had read him extensively.  Today he is scarcely read because few modern thinkers r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14216801">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 20 11:47:04 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[a book to be digested. in the preface the author &quot;boasts&quot; that he couldn't convey his solitary idea in fewer words. i was forever looking for a superfluous word or sentence while reading the book to point out . could find none so far. the style is beautiful and majestic. he is a seer. for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9832148">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book to be very dated and limited by its Kantian/Platonic/Cartesian framework (e.g., causality, principal of sufficient reason, the subject/object distinction, etc.), which Nietszche and Heidegger later broke down. Also, I was already familiar on a summary level with his major ideas and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52723252">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15410171">
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As the young philosopher below concisely put it, you can think of Schop’s will as Kant’s noumena and his representation as Kant’s phenomena. Will and representation has analogues in Plato as well, the former being what is, the latter being what we see. So Schop places himself in the long line ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15410171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13654831">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Mar 19 23:46:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Schopenhauer rocks my world! This book blew me away. Its so good, I'm going to read it all again. Schopenhauer starts with Kantian notions of our limits of reason (that the in-itself of objects is unknown to us), mixes in some eastern philosophy, and finally tops it off with some platonic idealism. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13654831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8334851">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's amazing to see a 19th century German philosopher so directly influenced by Vedanta Hindu philosophy, almost straight out of the Upanishads. There is a heavy pessimistic accent to the metaphysical system he expounds (which is very much a creation of his own), with a model very much influenced by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8334851">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20557035">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 02 09:01:07 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Schopenauer kind of epitomizes my favorite kind of philospher, the guy who does what he does more out of a desire to know and understand than for anything else.  Sure he's a crotchety old bastard who insults people he doesn't agree with, and his hero-worship of Kant is only acceptable because of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20557035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56860076">
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    <body><![CDATA[The most underrated philosopher in the West.  His ability to unfold his one thought across many pages is amazing, which culminates in a kind of defense for mysticism . . . truly a rarity in his time.]]></body>
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    <review id="39599565">
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    <body><![CDATA[Schopenhauer draws comparisons between Platonism and Buddhism as presents the natural world as blind will to live, and individualism as illusion.]]></body>
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    <review id="41380263">
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    <body><![CDATA[Great source of ideas, but sometimes very dry. More fun to discuss than to read alone, I thought. ]]></body>
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    <review id="14898651">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the first texts I read after making the decision to major in philosophy. In his personal life Schopenhauer was a clown prince, but his writing was excellent and his thought moving, if not sublime, in some places. <br/><br/>Schop was a contemporary of Kant and somewhat jealous of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14898651">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40034911">
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    <body><![CDATA[If you need a book to tell you about the Will than this is it.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="34889487">
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    <body><![CDATA[Schopenhauer tried to base his philosophy on Immanuel Kant's theorem that metaphysics cannot be considered a science since it cannot inherently be proven through nature.  In that course, he failed for a variety of reasons.  However, he lays out many good thoughts.  One interesting side note is that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34889487">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While some see Schopenhauer as inconsistent in his writings, he has had a huge effect on psychoanalysis and the works of Freud (even if Freud denied reading Schopenhauer until his old age. In fact, writings (The Interpretation of Dreams) from long before Freud claims to have read Schopenhauer contai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31001194">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;the answer to the riddle is given to the subject of knowledge who appears as an individual, and the answer is will. This and this alone gives him the key to his own existence, reveals to him the significance, shows him the inner mechanism of his being...&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="28803390">
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always been a fan of Kant and the post-Kantian German Idealists from the first time I read The Prolegomena.  In this post-Kantian systemization, Schopenhauer explains that the will is what Kant refers to as the noumena.  Good stuff]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't get much from this series, when he said his basic view corresponded to the Hindu view of the Veil of Maya it all clicked for me, which he'd edited the rest down.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Among the greatest books ever written.  <br/><br/>Without it, there would be no Nietzsche and no Wittgenstein. <br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.jameyhecht.com/Schopenhauer.html" title="http://www.jameyhecht.com/Schopenhauer.html">http://www.jameyhecht.com/Schopenhauer.h...</a><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, it's a hard read and a bit of a mindfuck, but well worth it.<br/>Without Schopenhauer there'd be no Nietzsche, so, booyah Schopehauer.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only work (with Spinoza's Ethics) where a whole philosophical System is included (in one book). A fascinating vision of the world.]]></body>
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