Sobre la cuádruple raíz del principio de razón suficiente
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- APAArthur Schopenhauer. (n.d.). Sobre la cuádruple raíz del principio de razón suficiente. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/schopenhauer/on-the-fourfold-root-of-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason-and-on-the-will-in-n
- MLAArthur Schopenhauer. "Sobre la cuádruple raíz del principio de razón suficiente." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/schopenhauer/on-the-fourfold-root-of-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason-and-on-the-will-in-n.
- ChicagoArthur Schopenhauer. Sobre la cuádruple raíz del principio de razón suficiente. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/schopenhauer/on-the-fourfold-root-of-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason-and-on-the-will-in-n.
De qué trata
La tesis doctoral de Schopenhauer, de 1813, que él mismo consideraba la puerta obligatoria para entenderlo, emparejada aquí con su ensayo posterior sobre la voluntad en la naturaleza.
Contexto e historia
La tesis dice que el principio de razón suficiente —todo tiene un porqué— no es uno solo sino cuatro cosas distintas que la filosofía ha confundido: la causa de un hecho físico, el fundamento de una conclusión lógica, el porqué de una verdad matemática y el motivo de una acción. Mezclarlos produce la mayor parte de los malentendidos de la metafísica. Schopenhauer insistió siempre en que quien leyera «El mundo como voluntad y representación» sin haber leído antes este texto no lo entendería. «Sobre la voluntad en la naturaleza», de 1836, es un libro muy posterior y de tema distinto: busca en las ciencias de su tiempo confirmaciones de su metafísica. Conviene saber que son dos obras separadas y de fechas bien alejadas.
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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.…