Will and the Way to Its Liberation: A Study of Schopenhauer's Philosophical Thought

Author: Huang Wenqian
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: When ancient Greek philosophers began to discuss freedom, they did not consider it a characteristic of the will. They had only the simple concepts of "freedom" or "will," or some basic understanding of these concepts, without delving deeply into theoretical exploration of the concepts themselves. Schopenhauer is a pivotal figure in the history of German philosophy. The analysis of his "freedom of the will" in this book is explained through two threads: critique and inheritance. One focuses on his critique of the absolute reason in German classical philosophy, from which he developed the concept of freedom of the will. The other focuses on his inheritance of German classical philosophy, particularly the inheritance of the freedom of the will in Kant's practical reason, known as "the thing-in-itself is will."