Julian Young - Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer

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For
Mary Montgomery

I should like to thank those who took part in my Auckland graduate seminar in the first semester of 2003 for a stimulating discussion of the substance of this book: in particular, Brignal Woods, Melanie Dougan, Tim MacKenzie and Mathias Mickl. Thanks are also due to my editor, Tony Bruce, and to the Routledge Philosophers series editor, Brian Leiter, for useful suggestions as to the structure of the work. The two (anonymous) readers of the manuscript saved me from various errors.

I am grateful, too, to the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and to the University of Auckland for research grants which enabled me to visit the Schopenhauer Archive in Frankfurt am Main and to benefit from discussions with German colleagues in Bonn and Lneburg.

Finally I should like to thank Gnter Seubold and Christoph Jamme for those helpful and enjoyable discussions.

The World as Will and Representation, vols I and IIWR I, WR II

The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason FR

On the Will in Nature WN

On the Basis of Morality BM

On the Freedom of the WillFW

Parerga and Paralipomena vols I and IIPP I, PP II

Manuscript Remains vols IIVMR 14

1632

Spinoza born (dies 1677)

Locke born (dies 1704)

1685

Berkeley born (dies 1753)

1717

Hume born (dies 1776)

1724

Kant born (dies 1804)

1749

Goethe born (dies 1832)

1762

Fichte born (dies 1814)

1770

Hegel born (dies 1831)

1775

Schelling born (dies 1854)

1781

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason appears.

1788

Arthur Schopenhauer is born.

1793

The Schopenhauer family move to Hamburg.

1797

Schopenhauer travels to Paris and Le Havre with his father.

Stays two years in Le Havre with family of business associate of his father

18034

Grand tour of Holland, England, France, Switzerland, Austria.

1804

Apprenticed to merchant Kabrun in Danzig.

1805

Apprenticed to merchant Jenisch in Hamburg.

Apparent suicide of his father.

1806

Mother moves to Weimar. Goethe starts to visit her tea parties.

1807

Studies at grammar school in Gotha to obtain university entrance.

180911

University studies at Gttingen: natural science, Plato, Kant.

181113

University studies in Berlin. Attends lectures by Fichte, Schleiermacher, Wolf.

1813

Flees Berlin on account of war. Short stay in Weimar.

Quarrels with mother, moves to nearby Rudolstadt where he writes his Ph. D. dissertation On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Conversation with Goethe in mother's house concerning theory of colours.

Richard Wagner born (dies 1883).

1814

Schopenhauer's final break with mother. Leaves Weimar for Dresden.

1815

On Seeing and Colours. Draft of first version of World as Will and Representation.

1818

World as Will and Representation published (though with '1819' on title page). Leaves Dresden for Italy.

1820

Lectures in Berlin. Hardly anyone turns up.

1821

Falls in love with singer Caroline Mdon. Beginning of the 'Marquet affair' (assault on seamstress and suit fordamages).

182333

Lives in Italy, Munich, Frankfurt, Mannheim, Dresden, Bad Gastein and Berlin. Tries and fails to establish himself as a translator. Illness, depression.

1833

Settles in Frankfurt, where he remains until the end of his life.

1835