num_pages: 144
description: Schopenhauer's Prize Essay is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism. He distinguishes the freedom of acting from the freedom of willing, affirming the former while denying the latter. This volume offers the text in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F.J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together with a historical and philosophical introduction by GÜnter Zöller.
language: English
title: Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will
titlecomplete: Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will (Texts in the History of Philosophy)
genres: Essays, Religion, Philosophy, Psychology, German Literature, Classics, Nonfiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 751
publisher: Cambridge University Press