Abstract

This work is part of the Arguments of the Philosophers series that aims to give a contemporary analytic assessment of "the great and influential philosophers". With Schopenhauer, however, the series runs up against an unruly subject overtly critical of analytic methods as unrevealing. In view of this he may well appear to be a "not very systematic thinker." It is Hamlyn's task, then, to try to isolate the main argument of his work--which he does by means of "reconstruction" and analysis of "plausible hypotheses" --in order to bring us to see that Schopenhauer was both "a great mind indeed" and also a fit subject for exposition in this series.