The World as Will and Idea, Volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World as Will and Idea, Volume 1, credited to Arthur Schopenhauer, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The World as Will and Idea, Volume 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer Schopenhauer used the word "will" as a human's most familiar designation for the concept that can also be signified by other words such as "desire," "striving," "wanting," "effort," and "urging." Schopenhauer's philosophy holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life. It is through the will that mankind finds all their suffering. Desire for more is what causes this suffering.He used the word representation (Vorstellung) to signify the mental idea or image of any object that is experienced as being external to the mind. It is sometimes translated as idea or presentation. This concept includes the representation of the observing subject's own body. Schopenhauer called the subject's own body the immediate object because it is in the closest proximity to the mind, which is located in the brain. (Summary by wikipedia) Volume 1 of 2

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World as Will and Idea, Volume 1
• Author credits: Arthur Schopenhauer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 22:41:00

Catalogue topics

• philosophy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 00 - Translators' Preface. — 2:38
2. 01 - Preface To The First Edition. — 16:17
3. 02 - Preface To The Second Edition. — 29:25
4. 03 - First Book. The World As Idea. First Aspect.1 - 4 — 34:14
5. 04 - First Book. The World As Idea. First Aspect. 5- 6 — 36:16
6. 05 - First Book. The World As Idea. First Aspect. 7 — 30:13
7. 06 - First Book. The World As Idea. First Aspect 8 — 14:39
8. 07 - First Book. The World As Idea. First Aspect 9 — 30:22
9. 08 - First Book. The World As Idea. First Aspect 10 & 12 — 26:02
10. 09 - First Book. The World As Idea. First Aspect 13 & 14 — 37:04
11. 10 - First Book. The World As Idea. First Aspect 15 — 47:53
12. 11 - First Book. The World As Idea. First Aspect 16 — 25:28
13. 12 - Second Book. The World As Will. First Aspect. 17 to 19 — 36:49
14. 13 - Second Book. The World As Will. First Aspect. 20 & 23 — 38:26
15. 14 - Second Book. The World As Will. First Aspect. 24 , 25 — 33:58
16. 15 - Second Book. The World As Will. First Aspect. 26 — 27:45
17. 16 - Second Book. The World As Will. First Aspect. 27 part1 — 13:20
18. 17 - Second Book. The World As Will. First Aspect. 27 part 2 — 24:57
19. 18 - Second Book. The World As Will. First Aspect.28 & 29 — 46:05
20. 19 - Third Book. The World As Idea. Second Aspect.Paragraph 30 to 33 — 29:10
21. 20 - Third Book. The World As Idea. Second Aspect.Paragraph 34 & 35 — 19:22
22. 21 - Third Book. The World As Idea. Second Aspect.Paragraph 36 — 33:58
23. 22 - Third Book. The World As Idea. Second Aspect.Paragraph 37 & 39 — 43:40
24. 23 - Third Book. The World As Idea. Second Aspect.Paragraph 40 to 43 — 35:45

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