Schopenhauer: Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will Paperback

Arthur Schopenhauer
Cambridge University Press
9780521577663
0-521-57766-7

Schopenhauer's Prize Essay is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism. He distinguishes the freedom of acting from the freedom of willing, affirming.

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the former while denying the latter. This volume offers the text in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F.J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together with a historical and philosophical introduction by Gnter Zller.