Sobre la quàdruple arrel del principi de raó suficient
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- APAArthur Schopenhauer. (n.d.). Sobre la quàdruple arrel del principi de raó suficient. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/schopenhauer/on-the-fourfold-root-of-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason-and-on-the-will-in-n
- MLAArthur Schopenhauer. "Sobre la quàdruple arrel del principi de raó suficient." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/schopenhauer/on-the-fourfold-root-of-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason-and-on-the-will-in-n.
- ChicagoArthur Schopenhauer. Sobre la quàdruple arrel del principi de raó suficient. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/schopenhauer/on-the-fourfold-root-of-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason-and-on-the-will-in-n.
De què tracta
La tesi doctoral de Schopenhauer, del 1813, que ell mateix considerava la porta obligatoria per entendre'l, aparellada aqui amb el seu assaig posterior sobre la voluntat a la natura.
Context i història
La tesi diu que el principi de rao suficient —tot te un perque— no es un de sol sino quatre coses diferents que la filosofia ha confos: la causa d'un fet fisic, el fonament d'una conclusio logica, el perque d'una veritat matematica i el motiu d'una accio. Barrejar-los produeix la major part dels malentesos de la metafisica. Schopenhauer va insistir sempre que qui llegis «El mon com a voluntat i representacio» sense haver llegit abans aquest text no l'entendria. «Sobre la voluntat a la natura», del 1836, es un llibre molt posterior i de tema distint: hi busca a les ciencies del seu temps confirmacions de la seva metafisica. Val la pena saber que son dues obres separades i de dates ben allunyades.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
knowledge to be the indispensable condition for a right comprehension of his meaning. So far as I am aware, neither the "Fourfold Root" nor the "Will in Nature" have as yet found a translator; therefore, considering the dawning interest which has begun to make itself felt for Schopenhauer's philosophy in England and in America, and the fact that no more competent scholar has come forward to do the work, it may not seem presumptuous to suppose that this version may be acceptable to those who wish to acquire a more than superficial knowledge of this remarkable thinker, yet whose acquaintance with German does not permit them to read his works in the original. Now although some portions of both the Essays published in the present volume have of course become antiquated, owing to the subsequent development of the empirical sciences, while others--such as, for instance, Schopenhauer's denunciation of plagiarism in the cases of Brandis and Rosas in the beginning of Physiology and Pathology[2]--can have no interest for the reader of the present day, I have nevertheless given them just as he left them and refrained from all suppression or alteration. And if, on the whole, the "Will in Nature" may be less indispensable for a right understanding of our philosopher's views than the "Fourfold Root," being merely a record of the confirmations which had been contributed during his lifetime by the various branches would thus be more readily understood. As however he uses the word '_idea_' everywhere else exclusively in its original (Platonic) sense, I have preferred to avoid needless confusion by adhering to his own declaration and definition. Besides, many English writers of note have protested against any other sense being given to it, and modern German philosophers have more and more returned to the original meaning of the term. [4] See p. 113, § 34 of the original, and p. 133 of the present translation.…