Product Description: "On the Will in Nature" was originally published in 1836 and is an extensive account of Schopenhauer's metaphysics as it relates to natural phenomena. For a long time unavailable in print, this is the original translation by Karl Hillebrand.

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Product Description: "Schopenhauer’s analyses of causation and related concepts ... rival and probably surpass in their depth and brilliance the more celebrated discussions of David Hume. Where Hume grossly oversimplified these problems and left them riddled with paradoxes, Schopenhauer disentangled them and shed light on what had seemed hopelessly dark" – Richard TaylorThis little-known work by the famous German pessimist and critic of Hegel was originally written as a doctoral dissertation when Schopenhauer was just twenty-six, but it was later revised when the philosopher was sixty...read more