 | Arthur Schopenhauer - 1883 - 536 pages
...genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as ffavarov /teXer1j. Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise....death in the face with a quiet glance. 1 This chapter is connected with ยง 54 of the first volume. Brahmanism and Buddhism, which teach man to regard himself... | |
 | Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne - Philosophy - 1966 - 730 pages
...neither in need of nor capable of them. All religions and philosophical systems are directed principally to this end, and are thus primarily the antidote to the certainty of death which reflecting reason produces from its own resources. The degree in which they attain this end is, however,... | |
 | R. Raj Singh - Philosophy - 2007 - 150 pages
..."metaphysical" points of view ... All religions and philosophical systems are directed principally to this end and are thus primarily the antidote to the certainty of death which reflecting reason produces from its own resources. The degree in which they attain this end is, however,... | |
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Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise. Therefore it will be quite in order that a special consideration of this should have its place here at the beginning of the last, most serious, and most important of our books. The brute lives without... 