The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thou

The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thou

Arthur Schopenhauer made the momentous decision to become a philosopher when he was approximately 22 years old. Prior to that decision, he had been studying med

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Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream