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Cheers for "Tales "You'll smile, you'll chuckle, you'll even fight back a nostalgic tear or two as you read Ronald Smith's wonderful book, Tales of Modern Day Mountain Men. Most of all, you'll find yourself thinking that America would be in much better shape if every boy in every city had an opportunity to join the journeys of the Mountain Men. You'll camp with the Mountain Men in wilderness areas where life lessons aren't taught out of a book, but out of life-changing personal experiences and interpersonal relationships. In a day and age in which masculinity, courage, and sacrifice are...

Schopenhauer (1788-1860) is something of a maverick figure in the history of philosophy. He produced a unique theory of the world and human existence based on his notion of will. This collection analyzes the related but distinct components of will from the point of view of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of psychoanalysis. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Schopenhauer currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of...

Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will--a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both the human mind and the whole of nature. Seeing human behavior as that of a natural organism governed by the will to life, Schopenhauer developed radical insights concerning the unconscious and...