THE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
(Translated by T. Bailey Saunders, M.A.)















RELIGION:

1. Prefatory Note
2. Religion. a Dialogue
3. A Few Words on Pantheism
4. On Books and Reading
5. Physiognomy
6. Psychological Observations
7. The Christian System


THE WISDOM OF LIFE  

Introduction
1. Division of the Subject
2. Personality, or What a Man Is
3. Property, or What a Man Has
4. Position, or a Man's Place in the Estimation of Others


ON HUMAN NATURE

Translator's Preface
1. Human Nature
2. Government
3. Free-Will and Fatalism
4. Character
5. Moral Instinct
6. Ethical Reflections


STUDIES IN PESSIMISM

Translator's Note
1. On the Suffering of the Word
2. On the Vanity of Existence
3. On Suicide
4. Immortality: A Dialogue
5. Psychological Observations
6. On Education
7. Of Women
8. On Noise
9. A Few Parables   


THE ART OF CONTROVERSY

Translator's Preface
1. The Art of Controversy
2. On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art
3. Psychological Observations
4. On the Wisdom of Life: Aphorisms
5. Genius and Virtue


COUNSELS AND MAXIMS

Introduction
1. General Rules
2. Our Relation to Ourselves
3. Our Relation to Others
4. Worldly Fortune
5. The Ages of Life


THE ART OF LITERATURE

Translator's Preface
1. On Authorship
2. On Style
3. On the Study of Latin
4. On Men of Learning
5. On Thinking for Oneself
6. On Some Forms of Literature
7. On Criticism
8. On Reputation
9. On Genius
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