ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860) was a German philosopher best known for his book, THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION [Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung], in which he claimed that our world is driven by a fundamentally dissatisfied will, continually seeking satisfaction.  Influenced by Eastern philosophy, he maintained that the "truth was recognized by the sages of India"; consequently, his solutions to suffering were similar to those of Vedantic and Buddhist thinkers (i.e., asceticism).  His faith in "transcendental ideality" led him to accept atheism.

His work influenced many thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Otto Weininger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Gustav Jung, Joseph Campbell, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mustafa Mahmud, among others.


This collection includes two translations of THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION and several editions of his philosophical essays, in a mix of ePUB and/or PDF formats as indicated:

* THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (Halcyon Press, 2010). -- ePUB

* THE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, 8 vols. (Penn State Electronic Classics, 2004-2013).  Translated by T. Bailey Saunders (vols. 1-7) and Mrs. Rudolf Dirks (vol. 8). -- PDF

* ESSAYS AND APHORISMS (Penguin Classics, 2004).  Translated and with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale. -- ePUB

* THE ESSENTIAL SCHOPENHAUER: Key Selections from "The World as Will and Representation" & Other Writings (HarperCollins, 2010).  Edited and with a Foreword by Wolfgang Schirmacher. -- ePUB

* PARERGA AND PARALIPOMENA: Short Philosophical Essays, 2 vols. (Clarendon Press, 1974).  Translated by E. F. J. Payne. -- PDF

* THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF ETHICS (Cambridge University Press, 2009).  Translated and edited by Christopher Janaway. -- PDF

* THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION, Volume 1 (Cambridge University Press, 2010).  Translated by Judith Norman, Alistair Welchman and Christopher Janaway.  (NOTE: Vol. 2 is not yet published.) -- PDF

* THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION, 2 vols. (Dover, 1969).  Translated by E. F. J. Payne. -- PDF + ePUB