Here you'll find free Arthur Schopenhauer books in PDF, all in English. They range from The World as Will and Representation to his famous essays.
Schopenhauer was born in Danzig in 1788 and wrote in the shadow of Hegel. He joined Kant's ideas with the Upanishads and Buddhism to describe a blind, restless will.
Fame came late, in 1851, with the essays of Parerga and Paralipomena. Later, Wagner, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Freud and Wittgenstein all read him closely.
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Philosophy
Schopenhauer Philosophy Books
These Schopenhauer books hold the system behind his essays: how we know the world and what the will really is. Start with The World as Will and Idea, and keep the Fourfold Root nearby, since he called it the key to the rest.
Schopenhauer's masterpiece complete in one file: the four books on the world as idea and as will, his Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy, and all the supplements he added later. The classic Haldane and Kemp translation of The World as Will and Representation.
His doctoral thesis on the four ways we explain anything, which he called the key to his whole system, together with On the Will in Nature, where he tests his metaphysics against the science of his day. Hillebrand's revised translation.
The prize essay where Schopenhauer takes apart Kant's ethics of duty and grounds morality in compassion instead. Bullock's translation, with his introduction and notes.
These Schopenhauer essays come from Parerga and Paralipomena, the 1851 book later sampled in Essays and Aphorisms. If you are new to him, start with Counsels and Maxims, On Women or The Art of Controversy, also called The Art of Being Right.
Practical rules for a good life, from avoiding pain instead of chasing pleasure to dealing with other people and growing older. The most quoted part of Parerga and Paralipomena.
Schopenhauer's guide to happiness and why what you are matters more than what you have or what others think of you. Short, sharp and the best place to start with him.
His most provocative essay, written in 1851 and still argued over today. Read it in full in Rudolf Dircks' translation and judge his views for yourself.
Includes the 38 stratagems known as The Art of Being Right, his ironic manual of tricks for winning any argument, right or wrong. Also has short essays on logic, art, genius and virtue.
Ten essays at the dark heart of his philosophy: the sufferings of the world, the vanity of existence, suicide, noise, women and the famous parable of the porcupines.
Schopenhauer on writing and reading: authorship, style, criticism, reputation, genius and why thinking for yourself beats reading too much. Advice any writer can still use.
Essays on human nature, government, free will, character and moral instinct. A clear look at how Schopenhauer judged people and the societies they build.
A lively dialogue between a believer and a skeptic on whether religion deserves respect, followed by essays on pantheism, books and reading, and the Christian system.
A wide sampler of his essays: authorship and style, noise, education, reading, women, thinking for oneself, the metaphysics of love and death. A good single volume to taste everything.
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