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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature

by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)

36 chapters, about 96,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 100 words
2. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. 1,200 words
3. CONTENTS. 200 words
4. THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 800 words
5. EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. 1,300 words
6. CHAPTER II. 3,800 words
7. CHAPTER III. 900 words
8. CHAPTER IV. 7,000 words
9. THE UNDERSTANDING. 14,800 words
10. CHAPTER V. 8,500 words
11. CHAPTER VI. 3,000 words
12. CHAPTER VII. 2,700 words
13. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND RESULTS. 2,300 words
14. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 4,500 words
15. EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. 400 words
16. INTRODUCTION. 2,000 words
17. PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY. 8,100 words
18. COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. 7,000 words
19. PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS. 6,900 words
20. PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY. 4,500 words
21. LINGUISTIC. 700 words
22. ANIMAL MAGNETISM AND MAGIC. 7,000 words
23. SINOLOGY. 3,400 words
24. REFERENCE TO ETHICS. 1,600 words
25. CONCLUSION. 700 words
26. BOHN'S LIBRARIES. 200 words
27. =BRIDGWATER TREATISES.= 500 words
28. CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S JANE EYRE. 200 words
29. IRVING'S SKETCH BOOK. 200 words
30. EDITED BY G. C. WILLIAMSON, LITT.D. 300 words
31. SONNETS. 200 words
32. BRITISH POETS. 200 words
33. HANDBOOKS OF ATHLETIC GAMES. 200 words
34. THE CLUB SERIES OF CARD AND TABLE GAMES. 100 words
35. BELL'S CATHEDRAL SERIES. 400 words
36. 2348 PAGES. 5000 ILLUSTRATIONS. 300 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Ancestor worship
• Essays (Francis Bacon)
• Existence of God
• Free will
• Judgment (law)
• Judgment (mathematical logic)
• Magic (supernatural)
• Motive (law)
• Physiology
• Principle of sufficient reason
• Reciprocity (cultural anthropology)
• Tao
• Theorem
• Unconscious mind

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