The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc


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"The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc" by Arthur Schopenhauer (translated by T. Bailey Saunders). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.







Religion, A Dialogue, Etc


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The Essays of Schopenhauer


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The Essays of Schopenehauer: Religion: A Dialogue, etc., was originally published in 1890, written by Arthur Schopenhauer, and translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders. The essays were taken from papers, that Schopenhauer wrote towards the end of his life named entitled Parerga und Paralipomena. Which delineate the nature of surplusage and illustrate his main philosophical position.







Essays of Schopenhauer


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"These essays are a valuable criticism of life by a man who had a wide experience of life, a man of the world, who possessed an almost inspired faculty of observation. Schopenhauer, of all men, unmistakably observed life at first hand. There is no academic echo in his utterances; he is not one of a school; his voice has no formal intonation; it is deep, full-chested, and rings out its words with all the poignancy of individual emphasis, without bluster, but with unfailing conviction. He was for his time, and for his country, an adept at literary form; but he used it only as a means. "




Religion, a Dialogue Etc: the Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer


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Schopenhauer, in his Dialogue on Religion, borrowing from, in admixture, David Hume's Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion (1779) and Cicero's dialogue The Nature of the Gods (45BC), employs two characters: Philalethes, the voice of philosophy, and Demopheles, the voice of the people, and thereby compares the philosophical view with the "metaphysics of the masses"; a few representative quotes: "They found it easier to burn Vanini that to confute him."-- Arthur Schopenhauer (c.1830), Dialogue on Religion (pg. 5)"You've no notion of how stupid most people are."-- Arthur Schopenhauer (c.1830), Dialogue on Religion (pg. 21); voice of Demopheles