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Editorial

Brilliance and Gloom

by Rick Lewis

In this issue we shall be celebrating the 200th birthday of a book. The book is The World as Will and Representation (1819) by the great and gloomy German thinker Arthur Schopenhauer. Happy birthday, book!

Arthur’s big book of everything is neatly structured into four parts, dealing respectively with epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics and ethics. Our special section is similarly structured. The first article introduces his epistemology and metaphysics (which are kind of interwoven), the second deals with his aesthetics, the third with his ethics.

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