Read Schopenhauer. Not about him.

Schopenhauer on wanting, status, other people and the discipline of solitude—selected into one practical reading path and lightly modernized for clarity.

Desire → Solitude → Suffering

The argument and severity remain his. The friction of a nineteenth-century English translation does not.

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Practical recognition

Notice the motive while it is still becoming an action.

These essays name patterns that are easy to feel and hard to see: why wealth enlarges appetite, why reputation commandeers attention, why company exhausts us and why solitude can restore proportion.

Twelve texts · Three works · One reading path

Edition 001 contents page listing three parts and twelve selections
A typeset page from What a Man Has in Edition 001

“Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.”

Arthur Schopenhauer, “What a Man Has,” page 8

Inside Edition 001

What you will read.

The route is Desire → Solitude → Suffering. The ideas are Schopenhauer’s; the selection, sequence and light modernization are ours.

Part I / 05

Desire

  1. What a Man Has07
  2. Reputation15
  3. Envy23
  4. Wishes and Illusions25
Part II / 35

Solitude

  1. Self-Sufficiency and Solitude37
  2. What a Man Is53
  3. Other People79
  4. On Noise84
Part III / 89

Suffering

  1. On the Sufferings of the World91
  2. The Vanity of Existence107
  3. On Suicide113
  4. A Few Parables119

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Edition 001 source notes page

The physical edition

The sharpness remains. The needless distance is removed.

Modernized from T. Bailey Saunders’s public-domain translation. Archaic syntax is clarified; the difficult, elitist and unsparing claims are not sanitized. Every selection remains traceable to its source.

Format
Hardcover
Trim
5.5 × 8.5 in
Extent
128 pages
Text
Lightly modernized from T. Bailey Saunders
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Print-on-demand hardcover; printed to order for each customer
$39.99

Edition 001

Read him for recognition, not decoration.

Desire. Status. Solitude. Attention.

Hardcover · 5.5 × 8.5 in · 128 pages$39.99

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