| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 126 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy
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Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-120) and index. |
| Contents |
The word and the deed of Socrates -- The Katha Upanishad : an Eastern classic on death -- Schopenhauer : Book IV of The world as will and representation -- Schopenhauer and Indian thought -- Schopenhauer : the supplementary essays -- Schopenhauer : the later essays. |
| Summary |
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. The book traces the pivotal issue of death through the whole range of Schopenhauer's writings uncovering the deeper con. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860. |
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Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860. |
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Death.
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Death. |
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Contemplation.
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Contemplation. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Singh, R. Raj, 1948- Death, contemplation and Schopenhauer. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2007 0754660508 9780754660507 (DLC) 2006026855 (OCoLC)71044449 |
| ISBN |
9780754687061 (electronic book) |
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0754687066 (electronic book) |
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0754660508 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780754660507 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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