Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root

Introduction

Jonathan Head and Dennis Vanden Auweele

Part I: The Historical Context of Fourfold Root

1. Schopenhauer's Metaphilosophy: How to Think a World Without Reason

Sebastian Gardner

2. The Fivefold Rood of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Eric v.d. Luft

Part II: (Transcendental) Idealism in and Beyond the Fourfold Root

3. Idealism in Fourfold Root

Joanthan Head

4. "The World Knot": Schopenhauer's Early Account of the Subject of Knowing and Willing in the Historic and Systematic Context of German Idealism

Guenter Zoeller

5. Schopenhauer's Early Fourfold Root and the Ghost of Kantian Freedom

Sandra Shapshay

6. 'A Most Beloved Piece of Nonsense': The Ontological Argument and Metaphysics

Dennis Vanden Auweele

Part III: Consciousness and Sensation in Fourfold Root

7. Who Gets the Best of the Winged Cherub?: Reid and Schopenhauer Confront Early Modern Anglicanism

Graham McAleer

8. Idea and Concept in Schopenhauer: From the Early Manuscripts to the World as Will and Representation

Marco Casucci

9. Schopenhauer on Perception, Consciousness, and Self-awareness

Luis de Sousa

10. Beyond the Principle of Sufficient Reason?: Schopenhauer's Aesthetic Phenomenology

Bart Vandenabeele

Part IV: Ethics, Motivation and Action

11 The Fourth Root and 'the Miracle par Excellence'

Gudrun von Tevenar and Christine Lopes

12 Kant's Theory of Freedom in Fourfold Root as the Progenitor of Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Will

Robert Wicks