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Bryan Magee, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983, pp.400, £17.50.

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Bryan Magee, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983, pp.400, £17.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

M.J. Inwood*
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Trinity College, Oxford
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1. See Walker, R.C.S., Kant (London, 1978) pp.131, 136, 144, 175–7Google Scholar. E. von Hartmannwrote a ‘platonic’ dialogue between the neo-Kantian Vaihinger and a lady to whom he proposes marriage. The proposal is rejected when he confesses his belief thather beauty and her body are the product of his own mind: Neukantianismus Schopenhaiierianismus und Hegelianismus in ihrer Stellung zu den philosophischen Aufgaben der Gegenwart (Berlin, 1877), pp.116118 Google Scholar.

2. Cf. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §15: ‘And others even say that theexternal world is the work of our organs, … But then our organs themselveswould be - the work of our organs!’

3. Cf. pp.212-3, where my death is said to be the end of the world.

4. E.g. Fichte's lectures of 1810-11, Die Thatsachen des Bewusstseyns, II. 4 Google Scholar ( Fichtes Werke, ed. Fichte, I.H. (Berlin 1845/1846: 1971), II pp. 600 ff.Google Scholar); Hegel‘s, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. Miller, A.V. (Oxford, 1977)Google Scholar (hereafter ‘PS’), pp.104 ff.

5. PS, pp.185 ff.

6. E.g. Encyclopaedia I §140 and Hegel's, Science of Logic, trans. Miller, A.V. (London, 1969) (hereafter ‘SL’), pp.523–8Google Scholar.

7. Lavater, J.C., Essays on Physiognomy, trans. Holcroft, T. (London, 18th edn., 1885?)Google Scholar; Schopenhauer's, Parerga and Paralipomena. trans. Payne, E.F.J. (Oxford, 1974), II, pp.634–41Google Scholar; PS, pp.185 ff.

8. Philosophy of Right, §4 with Addition 4.

9. Encyclopaedia III.

10. Cf. SL, p.487.

11. Herder, J.G., God: Some Conversations (1787, 2nd edn. 1800), trans. Burkhardt, F.H. (Indianapolis, 1946)Google Scholar; Hegel, , Encyclopaedia I §136Google Scholar.

12. For this type of move, see e.g. SL, p.97; Encyclopaedia I §63.

13. Esp. SL, pp.389 ff.

14. SL, pp.237 ff.

15. PS, pp.104 ff, 217 ff.

16. SL, pp.27, 54.

17. First and Second Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre, in Science of Knowledge, trans. Heath, P. and Lachs, J. (New York, 1970), pp.385 Google Scholar; The Vocationof Man, trans. Smith, W. and Chisholm, R.M. (New York, 1956)Google Scholar; Sonnenkiarer Berichttlber das Wesen der neuesten Philosophie, in Werke, Fichtes, II pp.323420 Google Scholar, and in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 2 (1868), pp.3-18, 65-82, 129–40 (trans. Kroeger, A.E.)Google Scholar.