Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Schopenhauer on the Self
- 2 Schopenhauer and Knowledge
- 3 The Fourfold Root
- 4 Schopenhauer, Kant, and the Methods of Philosophy
- 5 Will and Nature
- 6 The Influences of Eastern Thought on Schopenhauer’s Doctrine of the Thing-in-Itself
- 7 Ideas and Imagination
- 8 Schopenhauer’s Narrower Sense of Morality
- 9 Schopenhauer on Death
- 10 Schopenhauer’s Pessimism
- 11 Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dionysus
- 12 Schopenhauer, Will, and the Unconscious
- 13 Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Schopenhauer on the Self
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Schopenhauer on the Self
- 2 Schopenhauer and Knowledge
- 3 The Fourfold Root
- 4 Schopenhauer, Kant, and the Methods of Philosophy
- 5 Will and Nature
- 6 The Influences of Eastern Thought on Schopenhauer’s Doctrine of the Thing-in-Itself
- 7 Ideas and Imagination
- 8 Schopenhauer’s Narrower Sense of Morality
- 9 Schopenhauer on Death
- 10 Schopenhauer’s Pessimism
- 11 Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dionysus
- 12 Schopenhauer, Will, and the Unconscious
- 13 Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
THE SELF AS WILL AND INTELLECT
In the German language, as in English, the pronoun or pronominal adjective selbst, or 'self,' lends emphasis to something or someone previously named. In its nominalized form, das Selbst, or 'the self,' the pronoun serves chiefly to identify a human being or person. A specifically philosophical usage of the nominalized form came into currency in England, chiefly through the work of John Locke, in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, from where it seems to have made its way into German philosophical terminology a few decades later. A main function of the philosophical term has been to identify the core or essence of a human being, as opposed to what might be accidental or contingent about him or her. In particular, the self has been identified with a human being's soul or mind as opposed to his or her body. In a secondary usage, the term has been employed to distinguish between constituent parts or aspects of one and the same being, in particular to articulate the special status of someone's or one's own 'better self.'
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- The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer , pp. 18 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999
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