Schopenhauer's Compass: An Introduction to Schopenhauer's Philosophy and Its Origins by Urs App [Book Review]

Philosophy East and West 67 (3):942-948 (2017)
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Abstract

In the past several decades of scholarship on Arthur Schopenhauer, a cottage industry has emerged that investigates the relationship between Schopenhauer and Indian thought. Studies on Schopenhauer and Indian thought usually fall into one of three categories: comparative studies of Schopenhauer’s views and Indian philosophies such as Advaita Vedānta and Buddhism,1 studies on Schopenhauer’s reception of Indian thought,2 and studies examining the extent to which Indian sources might have influenced the development of Schopenhauer’s philosophical views.3 As early as 1816, Schopenhauer himself gave impetus to studies of this third type with his famous remark: “I confess, by the way, that I...

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Swami Medhananda
University of California, Los Angeles

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