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Editor's Preface principal work. But in addition to the sketches which somehow and at some time found their way into the works themselves and which Schopenhauer for the most part struck out with his pencil, the manuscripts contain much that was left unprinted during his lifetime and has remained so even till now and which is yet well worth publishing. These unpub- lished passages furnish not merely significant suggestions for the inter- pretation of the world view that was developing and in the course of time was assuming an ever more imposing and pregnant form through proofs, elucidations and extensive investigations. They have a value of their own as evidence of the same strict love of truth to which the finished works owe their existence. Regardless of every false appear- ance and of every deep-rooted tradition, they describe the world and life as they are in reality. The manuscripts which were made over to Julius Frauenstädt and which, after his death in January 1879, went by w...
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prefacio Editor's Preface In his will of 26 June 1852 Arthur Schopenhauer left to Julius Frauen- städt, his disciple and later editor, his own personal interleaved copies of his works and his systematized and classified manuscripts. Schopen- hauer's own personal copies with their written alterations and additions furnished the basis for the new editions of his works which would be taken care of by the author himself and, after his death, by Frauenstädt. Most of them are missing. But the manuscripts formed the real store- house of Schopenhauer's thinking and contain his philosophical sketches covering the half-century from his student days right up to his death in 1860. From them he drew ideas for all his works since his Dissertation of 1813; from them there also came to a large extent the supplements with which he enlarged and enriched new editions of those works. In this respect the earliest manuscripts were just as important as the latest; again and again right to the v...
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