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The World as Will and Idea

by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)

8 chapters, about 174,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. TRANSLATORS’ PREFACE. 300 words
2. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 2,600 words
3. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 4,600 words
4. FIRST BOOK. THE WORLD AS IDEA. 35,800 words
5. SECOND BOOK. THE WORLD AS WILL. 29,000 words
6. THIRD BOOK. THE WORLD AS IDEA. 39,000 words
7. FOURTH BOOK. THE WORLD AS WILL. 58,800 words
8. FOOTNOTES 3,900 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Architecture
• Astronomy
• Concept
• Consequent
• Free will
• Idea
• Indian philosophy
• Insight
• Materialism
• Music
• Natural science
• Painting
• Past
• Physics
• Physiology
• Poet
• Positive law
• Principle of sufficient reason
• Rebirth (Buddhism)
• Repentance
• Resignation
• Scientism
• State of nature
• Sublimation (psychology)
• Sublime (philosophy)
• Suffering
• Suicide
• Suicide (Durkheim book)
• Syllogism
• Sympathy

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