Robert L Wicks
Biographic Data
| ID | 4495012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Wicks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wicks |
| SIGNATURE | WICKS R L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Schopenhauer on the Will as the Window to the World
In this essay, the author examines and evaluates Schopenhauer’s arguments for the theses that (1) our experience of our own willing or wanting various things is in a fundamental and thoroughgoing way different from all of our other experiences of the world, indeed, as he says, “different toto genere ” (in every way); (2) our experience of our own will is our only experience of things as they really are as opposed to the way they usually appear to…
Schopenhauer’s Intellectual Relationship with Goethe
Few intellectual figures of the modern era were as warmly and consistently praised by Schopenhauer as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, with whom Schopenhauer had an acquaintance and in whom he had an early admirer. The binding tie between them is the theory of color, which meant different things to each man and yet united them in their opposition to Newton and certain features of modernist science. Beyond the theory of color, this chapter explores Sch…
The Enduring Kantian Presence in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy
Most commentators hold that Schopenhauer breaks with Kant’s transcendental idealism insofar as he identifies the thing-in-itself with “Will.” By contrast, in this chapter, the author argues that Schopenhauer’s system bears a complicated yet faithful relationship to Kant’s transcendental idealism. After examining an interesting, recent interpretation by Alistair Welchman that reads him in this transcendent way, the author argues for an alternative…
Schopenhauer’s Understanding of Schelling
Schopenhauer is famously abusive toward his philosophical contemporary and rival, Friedrich William Joseph von Schelling. This chapter examines the motivations for Schopenhauer’s immoderate attitude and the substance behind the insults. It looks carefully at both the nature of the insults and substantive critical objections Schopenhauer had to Schelling’s philosophy, both to Schelling’s metaphysical description of the thing-in-itself and Schellin…
Schopenhauer’s Haunted World
Schopenhauer aspired to develop a metaphysics that provided a comprehensive explanation of the totality of experiences. Central to this task was the completion of the scientific image of the world by explaining assumptions made by, but not explainable by science and by explaining actual phenomena that science would rule out as impossible. So, in On Will in Nature , a work ostensibly concerned with showing how the best findings of science substant…
The Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer
This collection of thirty-one essays written by contemporary Schopenhauer scholars has six sections: (1) Influences on Schopenhauer, (2) Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of Will and Empirical Knowledge, (3) Aesthetic Experience, Music, and the Sublime, (4) Human Meaning, Politics, and Morality, (5) Religion and Schopenhauer’s Philosophy, and (6) Schopenhauer’s Influence. Some of the issues addressed concern the extent to which Schopenhauer adopted idea…
Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer and Hume on Will and Causation
One aspect of Schopenhauer’s doctrine that the world is will, which can be assessed independently of his more ambitious metaphysical ideas, is the claim that our own agency provides us with a full understanding of causation which then permeates and structures our experience of the world in general. In this chapter, the author argues that this claim can be defended against Hume’s well-known objections because they are based on a volitional theory …
Introduction to Existentialism
Schopenhauer's 'the World As Will and Representation
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Schopenhauer's 'the World As Will and Representation
Introduction to Existentialism
Schopenhauer on the Will as the Window to the World
In this essay, the author examines and evaluates Schopenhauer’s arguments for the theses that (1) our experience of our own willing or wanting various things is in a fundamental and thoroughgoing way different from all of our other experiences of the world, indeed, as he says, “different toto genere ” (in every way); (2) our experience of our own will is our only experience of things as they really are as opposed to the way they usually appear to…
Schopenhauer’s Intellectual Relationship with Goethe
Few intellectual figures of the modern era were as warmly and consistently praised by Schopenhauer as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, with whom Schopenhauer had an acquaintance and in whom he had an early admirer. The binding tie between them is the theory of color, which meant different things to each man and yet united them in their opposition to Newton and certain features of modernist science. Beyond the theory of color, this chapter explores Sch…
The Enduring Kantian Presence in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy
Most commentators hold that Schopenhauer breaks with Kant’s transcendental idealism insofar as he identifies the thing-in-itself with “Will.” By contrast, in this chapter, the author argues that Schopenhauer’s system bears a complicated yet faithful relationship to Kant’s transcendental idealism. After examining an interesting, recent interpretation by Alistair Welchman that reads him in this transcendent way, the author argues for an alternative…
Schopenhauer’s Understanding of Schelling
Schopenhauer is famously abusive toward his philosophical contemporary and rival, Friedrich William Joseph von Schelling. This chapter examines the motivations for Schopenhauer’s immoderate attitude and the substance behind the insults. It looks carefully at both the nature of the insults and substantive critical objections Schopenhauer had to Schelling’s philosophy, both to Schelling’s metaphysical description of the thing-in-itself and Schellin…
Schopenhauer’s Haunted World
Schopenhauer aspired to develop a metaphysics that provided a comprehensive explanation of the totality of experiences. Central to this task was the completion of the scientific image of the world by explaining assumptions made by, but not explainable by science and by explaining actual phenomena that science would rule out as impossible. So, in On Will in Nature , a work ostensibly concerned with showing how the best findings of science substant…
The Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer
This collection of thirty-one essays written by contemporary Schopenhauer scholars has six sections: (1) Influences on Schopenhauer, (2) Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of Will and Empirical Knowledge, (3) Aesthetic Experience, Music, and the Sublime, (4) Human Meaning, Politics, and Morality, (5) Religion and Schopenhauer’s Philosophy, and (6) Schopenhauer’s Influence. Some of the issues addressed concern the extent to which Schopenhauer adopted idea…
Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer and Hume on Will and Causation
One aspect of Schopenhauer’s doctrine that the world is will, which can be assessed independently of his more ambitious metaphysical ideas, is the claim that our own agency provides us with a full understanding of causation which then permeates and structures our experience of the world in general. In this chapter, the author argues that this claim can be defended against Hume’s well-known objections because they are based on a volitional theory …
Epistemology (8 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Metaphysics (6 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Meaning (existential) (2 works)