《叔本华》简介：

德国哲学家当中，叔本华是最有可读性的一位。本书对叔本华的形而上学哲学体系进行了简洁的阐释，尤其聚焦于叔本华思想的原创性特征，这种原创性启发了包括尼采、瓦格纳、弗洛伊德、维特根斯坦等在内的许多艺术家和思想家。作者将笔锋直接指向叔本华毫不妥协的悲观主义观点，即对人类个体来说，最好的境况是不曾出生，只有圣人般的自我否定（摒弃欲望）才能赋予生命价值。本书展示的叔本华，是一个具有战斗精神、气势咄咄逼人、影响力非凡的思想家。

《叔本华》摘录：

Schopenhauer maintains that each person's character is both constant and inborn. We can neither choose nor change what we are. We can be educated to understand the world and ourselves better, giving us better, more refined motives on which to act, but the self that these motives prompt into action really has not altered:" Under the changeable shell of his years, hhis relationshhips, and even his store of knowledge and opinions, there hides, like a crab under its shell, the identical and real man, quite unchangeble and always the same" . Schopenhauer thinks that many of ordinary attitudes bear out this claim: we assume not just identity of the person, but constancy in the moral character as well. When we have gone on trusting someone to behave in a certain way, and have eventually been disa...

《叔本华》目录：

前言
１　叔本华的生平与著作
２　现象之内与现象之外
３　作为意志和表象的世界
４　意志、身体和自我
５　性格、性和无意识
６　艺术与理念
７　伦理学：正确看待世界
８　存在和悲观主义
９　叔本华的影响
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