This book, which grew out of its author's dissertation On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, proposes that self-denial and asceticism are ways of accepting the world's suffering.
This work, which was first translated into English by Viscount Haldane, compares the enslavement of the mind to the "wheel of Ixion." Its section on aesthetics proposes a ladder in which the disciplines of landscape architecture and architecture are on the bottom, and poetry and music are on the top. The third section of this treatise considers aesthetic contemplation as a way of easing the (*) pain of humanity. This work's first appendix discusses the author's rejection of Kant's ding an sich. This book, which grew out of its author's dissertation On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, proposes that self-denial and asceticism are ways of accepting the world's suffering. For 10 points, name this treatise on reality by Arthur Schopenhauer.
This work, which was first translated into English by Viscount Haldane, compares the enslavement of the mind to the "wheel of Ixion.
The World as Will and Idea [or The World as Will and Representation or Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung]