Knowledge and Selflessness: Schopenhauer and the Paradox of Reflection

In Robert Stern, Alex Neill & Christopher Janaway, Better Consciousness. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 98–119 (2010-02-19)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Self as Will Knowledge as the ‘Quieter of the Will’ Resignation Contemplation Two Conceptions of Contemplation: Diversion and Reflection The Paradox of Reflection References.

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knowledge and selflessness ‐ Schopenhauer and paradox of reflection   freedom from the will, best conditions for human beings ‐ assuming a kind of selflessness   the self as will ‐ sense of self, or representation of something as me or mine   Schopenhauer's argument resting on ‐ a conception of activity of the intellect as ‘illumination’   fundamental distinction ‐ consciousness of ‘things’ in ‘external world’ and ‘selfconsciousness’   Knowledge as the ‘Quieter of the Will’   freedom from willing ‐ achieved through knowledge   recognition that frustration of the will ‐ source of pain is ‘inevitable and essential’, a degree of stoical equanimity   Schopenhauer defining suffering as ‘unfulfilled and thwarted willing’   aesthetic contemplation ‐ primarily in alteration of his cognitive relation to the world

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original Reginster, Bernard (2008) "Knowledge and Selflessness: Schopenhauer and the Paradox of Reflection". European Journal of Philosophy 16(2):251-272
reprint Reginster, Bernard (2009) "Knowledge and selflessness: Schopenhauer and the paradox of reflection". In Neill, Alex, Janaway, Christopher, Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value, pp. : Wiley-Blackwell (2009)

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