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《英文學術名著:叔本華作品集》雖然討論的話題眾多,但裡面貫穿著的基本思想主線清晰可辨。叔本華這位“語言藝術家”(弗蘭茨?卡夫卡的贊語)的過人之處就在於把真理裹以最樸素的語言外衣,從而讓真理直接發揮其必然具備的震撼力。因為深刻,所以樸素;因為樸素,更見深刻。尼采形容閱讀叔本華的著作猶如抵達了“一處森林高地——在這裡,我們深深地呼吸著清新的空氣,整個人感覺耳目一新,重又充滿了生機”。《英文學術名著:叔本華作品集》里代表性的論文只占叔本華全部哲學著作的一小部分,但這些論文足以讓我們領略到叔本華這位“不折不扣的天才”(托爾斯泰語)的思想魅力。
目錄
Ⅰ The Wisdom of Life
1 DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT
2 PERSONALITY, OR WHAT A MAN IS
3 PROPERTY, OR WHAT A MAN HAS
4 POSITION, OR A MAN'S PLACE
4.1 Reputation
4.2 Pride
4.3 Rank
4.4 Honor
4.5 Fame
Ⅱ Counsels and Maxims
5 GENERAL RULES
6 OUR RELATION TO OURSELVES
7 OUR RELATION TO OTHERS
8worldlyFORTUNE
9 THE AGES OF LIFE
Ⅲ Religion, a Dialogue, Etc.
10 RELIGION. A DIALOGUE
11 A FEW WORDS ONpantheism
12 ON BOOKS AND READING
13 PHYSIOGNOMY
14 PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
15 THE CHRISTIAN SYSTEM
IV The Art of Literature
16 ON AUTHORSHIP
17 ON STYLE
18 ON THE STUDY OF LATIN
19 ON MEN OF LEARNING
20 ON THINKING FOR ONESELF
21 ON SOME FORMS OF LITERATURE
22 ON CRITICISM
23 ON REPUTATION
24 ON GENIUS
Ⅴ Studies inpessimism
25 ON THE SUFFERINGS OF THE WORLD
26 THE VANITY OF EXISTENCE
27 ONSUICIDE
28 IMMORTALITY:A DIALOGUE
29 PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
30 ON EDUCATION
31 OF WOMEN
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
32 ON NOISE
33 A FEW PARABLES
Ⅵ On Human Nature
34 HUMAN NATURE
35 GOVERNMENT
36 FREE-WILL ANDfatalism
37 CHARACTER
38 MORAL INSTINCT
39 ETHICAL REFLECTIONS
Ⅶ The Art of Controversy
40 PRELIMINARY: LOGIC ANDdialectic
41 THE BASIS OF ALL DIALECTIC
42 STRATAGEMS
42.1 ON THE COMPARATIVE PLACE OF INTEREST AND BEAUTY IN WORKS OF ART
42.2 PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
42.3 ON THE WISDOM OF LIFE: APHORISMS
42.4 GENIUS AND VIRTUE