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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Two Fundamental Problems Of Ethics by Arthur Schopenhauer , Edited and translated by Christopher Janaway
Arthur Schopenhauers The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics 1841 consists of two groundbreaking essays: On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals. The essays make original contributions to ethics and display Schopenhauers erudition, prose-style and flair for philosophical controversy, as well as philosophical views that contrast sharply with the positions of both Kant and Nietzsche. Written accessibly, they do not presuppose the intricate metaphysics which Schopenhauer constructs elsewhere. This is the first English translation of these works to re-unite both essays in one volume. It offers a new translation by Christopher Janaway, together with an introduction, editorial notes on Schopenhauers vocabulary and the different editions of his essays, a chronology of his life, a bibliography, and a glossary of names.show more