Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer

R. Raj Singh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

140 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27608-6 (ISBN)

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The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical sources of this philosophical literature, in particular Plato's Phaedo and the Katha Upanishad and then proceeds to a sustained analysis and critical assessment of the sources and standpoints of a single thinker, Arthur Schopenhauer, whose work comprehensively pursues this problem. Going beyond the well examined western influences on Schopenhauer, Singh offers an in-depth account of Schopenhauer's references to eastern thought and a comprehensive examination of his eastern sources, particularly Vedanta and Buddhism. The book traces the pivotal issue of death through the whole range of Schopenhauer's writings uncovering the deeper connotations of his crucial notion of the will-to-live.

R. Raj Singh is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Brock University, Ontario, Canada.

Chapter 1 The Word and the Deed of Socrates; Chapter 2 The Katha Upanishad; Chapter 3 Schopenhauer; Chapter 4 Schopenhauer and Indian Thought; Chapter 5 Schopenhauer; Chapter 6 Schopenhauer;

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	204 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-138-27608-1 / 1138276081
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27608-6 / 9781138276086
Zustand	Neuware