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Schopenhauer's broken world-view
colours and ethics between Kant and Goethe
Abstract
Schopenhauer's philosophy, at first sight so beautifully rounded, upon analysis reveals itself as the secret arena of two conflicting world-views. The present analysis considers the conflict by confronting Schopenhauer as a `disciple-of-sorts of Kant' with Schopenhauer as `Goethe's one-time collaborator on the theory of colour'. Here the two meet over profound issues which the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century has ineluctably put before us: what is the right level at which to apprehend nature; what is the proper foundation for a consistent ethics; how (if at all) to arrive at a unified conception of a world broken by modern science? In this deeply-delving, lucidly written, humane and erudite study, the history of philosophical currents is blended with history of science, with history of ideas generally, and (to elucidate relevant portions of Schopenhauer's biography and intellectual and social environment) with German history too. The analysis, while benefiting from the scholarly literature, is grounded primarily in original research among the collected works of Schopenhauer, Kant and Goethe, considered in all their philosophical, scientific, and literary variety.
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pp.9-40
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9369-4_2can the world be in my head, yet my head be in the world?
pp.83-116
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9369-4_5Hegel and Schopenhauer as partisans of Goethe's theory of colours
pp.117-134
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9369-4_6can God commit suicide?
pp.197-229
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9369-4_9Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2000
Pages: 291
Series: Science and Philosophy
Series volume: 10
ISBN (hardback): 978-90-481-5566-8
ISBN (digital): 978-94-015-9369-4
Full citation:
Lauxtermann Paul F. H. (2000) Schopenhauer's broken world-view: colours and ethics between Kant and Goethe. Dordrecht, Springer.