Schopenhauer, Arthur | Josiah Royce (essay date 1892)

Josiah Royce (essay date 1892)

SOURCE: "Schopenhauer," in The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920, pp. 228-64.

[Royce was an American philosopher whose works include The World and the Individual (1900) and Lectures on Modern Idealism (1919). Royce's neo-Hegelian idealism conceives of reality as fragmentary manifestations of an absolute mind; only when the individual understands the unity of the ideal absolute can perfection be attained. In the following excerpt from a lecture originally published in 1892, Royce contextualizes Schopenhauer's metaphysics with regard to idealism versus realism and evaluates Schopenhauer in relation to Hegel.]

A. J. Ayer on Schopenhauer's importance:

While there are a few philosophers whose name is more widely known than that of Schopenhauer, the study of his writings, at least in this country, has fallen largely into neglect. A not...

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