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}</style></head><body><div class="ED-TEI"><p class="ED-titleStmt"><span class="ED-persName-sent">William Caldwell</span> an <span class="ED-persName-received">Vaihinger</span>, <span class="ED-location-sent">Evanston (Illinois, USA)</span>, <span class="ED-date">16.11.1898</span>, <span class="ED-note">6 S., hs.</span>, <span class="ED-pubPlace">Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, Aut. XXI, 4 b</span></p><div class="ED-text"><p class="ED-dateline">Northwestern University</p><p class="ED-dateline">Evanston, Ills. <abbr title="United States of America" class="ED-abbr">U. S. A.</abbr></p><p class="ED-dateline">Nov<span class="ED-add">[ember]</span> 16/98</p><p class="ED-salute">Hochgeehrter Herr College!</p><p class="ED-p">Darf ich Sie aufmerksam machen im Betreff meines ziemlich neu <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-1" title="hat ] Einfügung über der Zeile&#xD;&#xA;">hat</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-1" id="app-philological-1-ref" title="hat ] Einfügung über der Zeile">[a]</a> erscheinenen Werk über <span class="ED-name">Schopenhauer</span>’s System <abbr title="und so weiter" class="ED-abbr">u. s. w.</abbr></p><p class="ED-p"><u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;">Achtung</span></u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;">! – Bitte auf die Tausende </span><u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;">Fehler</span></u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;"> </span><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3 app-philological-2" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;… ] hier und im Folgenden Auslassungspunkte zur Andeutung des in Gedanken hinzuzufügenden wie in der Vorlage; Orthographie ebenfalls wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;">…</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-2" id="app-philological-2-ref" title="… ] hier und im Folgenden Auslassungspunkte zur Andeutung des in Gedanken hinzuzufügenden wie in der Vorlage; Orthographie ebenfalls wie in der Vorlage.">[b]</a><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;"> in </span><u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;">mein Deutsch</span></u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;"> … zu verzichten … Ich lese </span><abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;">u.</span></abbr><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;"> spreche Deu– … aber mit dem Schreiben! … Und ich habe </span><u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;">keine</span></u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.&#xD;&#xA;"> Zeit Fehler zu corrigiren]</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-3" id="app-philological-3-ref" title="Achtung! … corrigiren] ] Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.">[c]</a></p><p class="ED-p">Erstens, erlauben Sie, bitte einige Erklärungen … Obwohl es hat Englische-Französische- (in <u>Belgien</u> … <abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr">u.</abbr> anderswo – Canada. Amerika) … Recensionen gegeben, ich habe keine Notizen in den deutsch-<span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-4" title="philosophischen ] verschliffen geschrieben&#xD;&#xA;">philosophischen</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-4" id="app-philological-4-ref" title="philosophischen ] verschliffen geschrieben">[d]</a>-Zeitschriften gesehen. <u>Ich</u> <u>mag</u> daran Schuld sein – oder der <u>Verleger</u> … Ich weiss nicht. … Ich möchte sehr gern ein – <u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-1" title="Selbstanzeigen in dem Kantstudien ] vgl. den Abdruck in: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 117–118: Caldwell, W., Professor. Dr. Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance. Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1896. (XVIII and 527 p.) Although nearly all Schopenhauer’s writings had been translated into English, and although interesting lives of Schopenhauer had been written in English by Helen Zimmern and by the late Professor Wallace of Oxford, there was in English no extended and comprehensive study of Schopenhauer’s philosophy as a whole. This book was conceived as an attempt to meet this want. And also as an attempt to deal in a broad free way with the significance of Schopenhauer’s philosophy for the thought of to-day. […] I have thus occupied myself not merely with Schopenhauer as a „scholastic” philosopher […] nor yet merely with the inconsistencies and one-sidednesses of Schopenhauer, as do many critics. My volume is, I trust, supplementary to the classical treatises of Kuno Fischer and Ribot, and to the careful apologies of Frauenstädt. […] Schopenhauer’s pessimism I study as Illusionism. I do not think that his philosophy is adequately described as pessimism. It is far more than that. A great deal of it may be incorporated with the best thought of to-day. The book consists of the matter of the Shaw Fellowship Lectures which I, in my turn, delivered at Edinburgh University, Scotland. The Shaw Fellowship is the most important encouragement and endowment that exists in Scotland for the study of philosophy. The holder is expected to travel and study in the interest of philosophy and then to present the result of his study of some prominent philosophical question to the public, first in lectures and then in book form. The author was called from Scotland to America, first to the Sage School of Philosophy in Cornell University, and then later to his present position. Evanston, Ill. U. S. A. W. Caldwell.&#xD;&#xA;">Selbstanzeigen</span></u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-1" title="Selbstanzeigen in dem Kantstudien ] vgl. den Abdruck in: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 117–118: Caldwell, W., Professor. Dr. Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance. Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1896. (XVIII and 527 p.) Although nearly all Schopenhauer’s writings had been translated into English, and although interesting lives of Schopenhauer had been written in English by Helen Zimmern and by the late Professor Wallace of Oxford, there was in English no extended and comprehensive study of Schopenhauer’s philosophy as a whole. This book was conceived as an attempt to meet this want. And also as an attempt to deal in a broad free way with the significance of Schopenhauer’s philosophy for the thought of to-day. […] I have thus occupied myself not merely with Schopenhauer as a „scholastic” philosopher […] nor yet merely with the inconsistencies and one-sidednesses of Schopenhauer, as do many critics. My volume is, I trust, supplementary to the classical treatises of Kuno Fischer and Ribot, and to the careful apologies of Frauenstädt. […] Schopenhauer’s pessimism I study as Illusionism. I do not think that his philosophy is adequately described as pessimism. It is far more than that. A great deal of it may be incorporated with the best thought of to-day. The book consists of the matter of the Shaw Fellowship Lectures which I, in my turn, delivered at Edinburgh University, Scotland. The Shaw Fellowship is the most important encouragement and endowment that exists in Scotland for the study of philosophy. The holder is expected to travel and study in the interest of philosophy and then to present the result of his study of some prominent philosophical question to the public, first in lectures and then in book form. The author was called from Scotland to America, first to the Sage School of Philosophy in Cornell University, and then later to his present position. Evanston, Ill. U. S. A. W. Caldwell.&#xD;&#xA;"> in dem </span><u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-1" title="Selbstanzeigen in dem Kantstudien ] vgl. den Abdruck in: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 117–118: Caldwell, W., Professor. Dr. Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance. Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1896. (XVIII and 527 p.) Although nearly all Schopenhauer’s writings had been translated into English, and although interesting lives of Schopenhauer had been written in English by Helen Zimmern and by the late Professor Wallace of Oxford, there was in English no extended and comprehensive study of Schopenhauer’s philosophy as a whole. This book was conceived as an attempt to meet this want. And also as an attempt to deal in a broad free way with the significance of Schopenhauer’s philosophy for the thought of to-day. […] I have thus occupied myself not merely with Schopenhauer as a „scholastic” philosopher […] nor yet merely with the inconsistencies and one-sidednesses of Schopenhauer, as do many critics. My volume is, I trust, supplementary to the classical treatises of Kuno Fischer and Ribot, and to the careful apologies of Frauenstädt. […] Schopenhauer’s pessimism I study as Illusionism. I do not think that his philosophy is adequately described as pessimism. It is far more than that. A great deal of it may be incorporated with the best thought of to-day. The book consists of the matter of the Shaw Fellowship Lectures which I, in my turn, delivered at Edinburgh University, Scotland. The Shaw Fellowship is the most important encouragement and endowment that exists in Scotland for the study of philosophy. The holder is expected to travel and study in the interest of philosophy and then to present the result of his study of some prominent philosophical question to the public, first in lectures and then in book form. The author was called from Scotland to America, first to the Sage School of Philosophy in Cornell University, and then later to his present position. Evanston, Ill. U. S. A. W. Caldwell.&#xD;&#xA;">Kantstudien</span></u><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-editorial-1" id="app-editorial-1-ref" title="Selbstanzeigen in dem Kantstudien ] vgl. den Abdruck in: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 117–118: Caldwell, W., Professor. Dr. Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance. Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1896. (XVIII and 527 p.) Although nearly all Schopenhauer’s writings had been translated into English, and although interesting lives of Schopenhauer had been written in English by Helen Zimmern and by the late Professor Wallace of Oxford, there was in English no extended and comprehensive study of Schopenhauer’s philosophy as a whole. This book was conceived as an attempt to meet this want. And also as an attempt to deal in a broad free way with the significance of Schopenhauer’s philosophy for the thought of to-day. […] I have thus occupied myself not merely with Schopenhauer as a „scholastic” philosopher […] nor yet merely with the inconsistencies and one-sidednesses of Schopenhauer, as do many critics. My volume is, I trust, supplementary to the classical treatises of Kuno Fischer and Ribot, and to the careful apologies of Frauenstädt. […] Schopenhauer’s pessimism I study as Illusionism. I do not think that his philosophy is adequately described as pessimism. It is far more than that. A great deal of it may be incorporated with the best thought of to-day. The book consists of the matter of the Shaw Fellowship Lectures which I, in my turn, delivered at Edinburgh University, Scotland. The Shaw Fellowship is the most important encouragement and endowment that exists in Scotland for the study of philosophy. The holder is expected to travel and study in the interest of philosophy and then to present the result of his study of some prominent philosophical question to the public, first in lectures and then in book form. The author was called from Scotland to America, first to the Sage School of Philosophy in Cornell University, and then later to his present position. Evanston, Ill. U. S. A. W. Caldwell.">[1]</a> sehen. Die <span class="ED-pb">|</span> <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-5 app-editorial-2" title="Vierteljahrsschrift ] darüber am Kopf der neuen S. Zählung 2&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Vierteljahrsschrift ] meint: Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie&#xD;&#xA;">Vierteljahrsschrift</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-5" id="app-philological-5-ref" title="Vierteljahrsschrift ] darüber am Kopf der neuen S. Zählung 2">[e]</a><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-editorial-2" id="app-editorial-2-ref" title="Vierteljahrsschrift ] meint: Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie">[2]</a> … <abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr">u.</abbr> andere … haben das <u>Existenz</u> des Buches … constatirt … und das Existenz … von Recensionen … aber sonst nichts. … Ich habe so viele lobende Briefe über mein Buch von Deut–d <abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr">u.</abbr> Frankreich erhalten (insbesond … von <u><abbr title="Professor" class="ED-abbr">Prof.</abbr> <span class="ED-name">Eucken</span></u> – sehr <u>lobreich</u>) … <u><span class="ED-name">Pfleiderer</span></u> (Berlin) <u><span class="ED-name">Ebbinghaus</span></u>, <span class="ED-name">Drews</span> (Karlsruhe) … <span class="ED-name">Deussen</span>. (Kiel) … … … dass ich glaube … … dass ich etwas von <u>philos–n</u> Werth geschrieben-habe …</p><p class="ED-p">Englische Recensionen sind im <u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-6" title="Mind ] darüber zwei Kreuze mit Tinte&#xD;&#xA;">Mind</span></u><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-6" id="app-philological-6-ref" title="Mind ] darüber zwei Kreuze mit Tinte">[f]</a> (1897) <u>Athenaeum</u> <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-7" title="February 2/1897 ] Einfügung über der Zeile&#xD;&#xA;">February 2/1897</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-7" id="app-philological-7-ref" title="February 2/1897 ] Einfügung über der Zeile">[g]</a> <u>Spectator</u> (April 24, 1897) <abbr title="und so weiter" class="ED-abbr">u. s. w.</abbr></p><p class="ED-p">Die deutsch. Amerik–Zeitungen haben das Buch gepriesen.</p><p class="ED-p">The “<u>Philosophical Review</u>” … Kritik … war von einem fruheren <u>Nebenbuhler</u> geschrieben – und ist nict sympatisch. – fehlerhaft – wie ich selbst – zeigte in <u>Philos. Review</u> <abbr title="Band" class="ED-abbr"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-8" title="Bd. 1897 p 573 ] Einfügung unter der Zeile&#xD;&#xA;">Bd.</span></abbr><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-8" title="Bd. 1897 p 573 ] Einfügung unter der Zeile&#xD;&#xA;"> 1897 p 573</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-8" id="app-philological-8-ref" title="Bd. 1897 p 573 ] Einfügung unter der Zeile">[h]</a>, mit genehmigung des Redakteurs „Reply“ in Philos<span class="ED-add">[ophi]</span>cal Review <abbr title="Band" class="ED-abbr">Bd.</abbr> 1897 <span class="ED-pb">|</span></p><p class="ED-p"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-9" title="Darf ] darüber am Kopf der neuen S. Zählung Seite 3&#xD;&#xA;">Darf</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-9" id="app-philological-9-ref" title="Darf ] darüber am Kopf der neuen S. Zählung Seite 3">[i]</a> ich hoffen dass Sie mein <u>Selbstanzeigen</u> … for dem <u>Kant–n</u> benutzen <u>werden</u>. Ich bitte um dasselbe. Ich würde gern das <u>Selbs–n</u> corrigiren oder modifiziren … wenn Sie das verlangen. Ich habe gesucht bloss <u>Thatsachen</u> zu geben, nothwendige Thatsachen.</p><p class="ED-p">Ich habe naturlich fast alles in den deut–n <abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr">u.</abbr> franzos– Sprachen uber <span class="ED-name">Schop–</span> glesen. Ich studirte fruher in Deut–d. – Philosophie – und hauptsachlich die <u>neuere Psychologie</u>. Ich lehrte fruher <u>zu Edinburgh University</u>. Ich bin, wie gesagt, dem <span class="ED-name">Eucken</span>, <span class="ED-name">Ebbinghaus</span>, <span class="ED-name">Drews</span> <abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr">u.</abbr> anderen bekannt – auch in England – <abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr">u.</abbr> <u>hier</u> … den meisten <u>Philosophen</u>.</p><p class="ED-p">Artikeln von mir <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-10" title="geschr. ] Einfügung über der Zeile&#xD;&#xA;">geschr.</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-10" id="app-philological-10-ref" title="geschr. ] Einfügung über der Zeile">[j]</a> konnen Sie sehen <u>Contemporary Review</u>. London. Septem<span class="ED-add">[ber]</span> 1898 <span class="ED-pb">|</span></p><p class="ED-p"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-11" title="International ] darüber am Kopf der neuen S. Zählung 4&#xD;&#xA;">International</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-11" id="app-philological-11-ref" title="International ] darüber am Kopf der neuen S. Zählung 4">[k]</a> Journal of Ethicism July 1898</p><p class="ED-p">Psychological Review July 1898</p><p class="ED-p">– auch – früher in <u>Mind</u> <abbr title="und so weiter" class="ED-abbr">u. s. w.</abbr></p><p class="ED-p">Zwar erschein mein Buch im <u>Herbst 1896</u>. 1898 ist ein bischen spät; aber ich habe Selbstanzeigen in den <u>Kantstudien</u> von Bücher die in <u>1895</u> erscheinen sind. Aber “Better Late than Never” als wir in Englisch sagen –</p><p class="ED-p">Der <u>London</u> <u>Athenaeum</u> (unsere Beste Litterarische-Kritische Wochenschrift – wichtigste) … verglich das Buch mit <span class="ED-name">Kuno Fischer</span>’s and <span class="ED-name">Ribot</span>’s und behauptete … dass es … das <u>eindringendeste</u> … Englisch … studium des <span class="ED-name">Schopen–r</span>s … sei. Ihr Professor <u><span class="ED-name"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-12" title="Eucken ] darüber von Caldwells Hd. verdeutlichend: Eucken&#xD;&#xA;">Eucken</span></span></u><u><span class="ED-name"><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-12" id="app-philological-12-ref" title="Eucken ] darüber von Caldwells Hd. verdeutlichend: Eucken">[l]</a></span></u> schrieb mir einen enthusiastischen Brief … … in dem er sagte … <u>inter alia</u> – “ihr vortreffliches Werk … auf das Sie stolz sein <span class="ED-pb">|</span> <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-13" title="durfen ] darüber am Kopf der neuen S. Zählung 5&#xD;&#xA;">durfen</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-13" id="app-philological-13-ref" title="durfen ] darüber am Kopf der neuen S. Zählung 5">[m]</a> … und das sicherlich zu allgemeiner Anerkennung gelangen wird” <abbr title="und so weiter" class="ED-abbr">u. s. w.</abbr> <abbr title="und so weiter" class="ED-abbr">u. s. w.</abbr>”</p><p class="ED-p">Ich erlaube mir hiermit … Ihnen ein Exemplar – <u>zu schicken</u> … mit dem Wunsch dass Sie vielleicht es durch die Seiten des <u>Kantst</u>– bekannt machen werden.</p><p class="ED-p">Auch das <u>Selbstanzeigen</u> … hiermit. Hoffentlich können sie es lesen.</p><p class="ED-p">Darf ich schliessen mit der Bitte dass Sie mir wenigstens <u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-3" title="eine Postkarte ] nicht ermittelt&#xD;&#xA;">eine Postkarte</span></u><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-editorial-3" id="app-editorial-3-ref" title="eine Postkarte ] nicht ermittelt">[3]</a> über den Empfang des Buches – … und … sie sagen … <u>ob</u> sie das <u>Anzeigen</u> in the Kantstudien gestatten werden.</p><p class="ED-p">– Obwohl ich in <u>America</u> bin, bin ich noch <u>British</u>. (Ich war <u>dort</u> erzogen … <u>educated</u>. Ich war hierher <u>gerufen</u>). <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-14" title="in Hochachtung ] am rechten Rd. mit drei Pfeilen Hinweis Bitte! uber (bitte wenden!)&#xD;&#xA;">in </span><u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-14" title="in Hochachtung ] am rechten Rd. mit drei Pfeilen Hinweis Bitte! uber (bitte wenden!)&#xD;&#xA;">Hochachtung</span></u><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-14" id="app-philological-14-ref" title="in Hochachtung ] am rechten Rd. mit drei Pfeilen Hinweis Bitte! uber (bitte wenden!)">[n]</a></p><p class="ED-signed">William Caldwell <span class="ED-pb">|</span></p><hr class="ED-postscript"/><p class="ED-p">In dem Fall dass Sie meine Anzeigen im Druck zu setzen beabsichtigen … und es vielleicht nicht absolut … genau lesen können … ich gestatte um die Zeit nicht zu verschieben dass Sie ihr Bestes damit thun wenn Sie so freundlich sein werden</p><p class="ED-p">– with apologies and compliments</p><p class="ED-signed"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-15" title="W. C. ] darunter Querstrich über die ganze Seite&#xD;&#xA;">W. C.</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-15" id="app-philological-15-ref" title="W. C. ] darunter Querstrich über die ganze Seite">[o]</a></p><p class="ED-p"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="In … Recensionen. ] gemeint sind offenbar dem an Vaihinger übersandten Exemplar von Caldwell: Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance (1896) beigelegte Rezensionen, darunter vermutlich diejenige von John Watson (vgl. Edward Caird an Vaihinger vom 14.12.1897) in: Queen’s Quarterly 4 (1897), Nr. 3 von März, S. 232: In this scholarly work, Mr. Caldwell endeavours to suggest the significance of Schopenhauer’s thought as an organic whole, and to connect it with certain broad lines of human and general thought and with certain broad principles of human nature. After showing the scope of the system, and the spirit in which it ought to be studied, the author seeks in successive chapters to trace out the theoretical roots of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, to estimate the value of his doctrine that art, ethics and religion liberate man from the practical bondage of life, to give a critical statement of his metaphysic, and finally to gather up the positive results of the whole system. Mr. Caldwell has spared no pains in the execution of this comprehensive task, and it may be safely said that no student of modern philosophy, and indeed, no one who is interested in the speculative problems of the present day, can afford to neglect this important work. Whether he agrees or not with the author’s high estimate of Schopenhauer, and with the supreme importance which he assigns to the practical life, every sympathetic reader will find himself stimulated and aided by the forcible presentation of problems of perennial interest and importance.&#xD;&#xA;">In dem Buch habe ich einige Citate </span><abbr title="und so weiter" class="ED-abbr"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="In … Recensionen. ] gemeint sind offenbar dem an Vaihinger übersandten Exemplar von Caldwell: Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance (1896) beigelegte Rezensionen, darunter vermutlich diejenige von John Watson (vgl. Edward Caird an Vaihinger vom 14.12.1897) in: Queen’s Quarterly 4 (1897), Nr. 3 von März, S. 232: In this scholarly work, Mr. Caldwell endeavours to suggest the significance of Schopenhauer’s thought as an organic whole, and to connect it with certain broad lines of human and general thought and with certain broad principles of human nature. After showing the scope of the system, and the spirit in which it ought to be studied, the author seeks in successive chapters to trace out the theoretical roots of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, to estimate the value of his doctrine that art, ethics and religion liberate man from the practical bondage of life, to give a critical statement of his metaphysic, and finally to gather up the positive results of the whole system. Mr. Caldwell has spared no pains in the execution of this comprehensive task, and it may be safely said that no student of modern philosophy, and indeed, no one who is interested in the speculative problems of the present day, can afford to neglect this important work. Whether he agrees or not with the author’s high estimate of Schopenhauer, and with the supreme importance which he assigns to the practical life, every sympathetic reader will find himself stimulated and aided by the forcible presentation of problems of perennial interest and importance.&#xD;&#xA;">u. s. w.</span></abbr><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="In … Recensionen. ] gemeint sind offenbar dem an Vaihinger übersandten Exemplar von Caldwell: Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance (1896) beigelegte Rezensionen, darunter vermutlich diejenige von John Watson (vgl. Edward Caird an Vaihinger vom 14.12.1897) in: Queen’s Quarterly 4 (1897), Nr. 3 von März, S. 232: In this scholarly work, Mr. Caldwell endeavours to suggest the significance of Schopenhauer’s thought as an organic whole, and to connect it with certain broad lines of human and general thought and with certain broad principles of human nature. After showing the scope of the system, and the spirit in which it ought to be studied, the author seeks in successive chapters to trace out the theoretical roots of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, to estimate the value of his doctrine that art, ethics and religion liberate man from the practical bondage of life, to give a critical statement of his metaphysic, and finally to gather up the positive results of the whole system. Mr. Caldwell has spared no pains in the execution of this comprehensive task, and it may be safely said that no student of modern philosophy, and indeed, no one who is interested in the speculative problems of the present day, can afford to neglect this important work. Whether he agrees or not with the author’s high estimate of Schopenhauer, and with the supreme importance which he assigns to the practical life, every sympathetic reader will find himself stimulated and aided by the forcible presentation of problems of perennial interest and importance.&#xD;&#xA;"> aus </span><u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="In … Recensionen. ] gemeint sind offenbar dem an Vaihinger übersandten Exemplar von Caldwell: Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance (1896) beigelegte Rezensionen, darunter vermutlich diejenige von John Watson (vgl. Edward Caird an Vaihinger vom 14.12.1897) in: Queen’s Quarterly 4 (1897), Nr. 3 von März, S. 232: In this scholarly work, Mr. Caldwell endeavours to suggest the significance of Schopenhauer’s thought as an organic whole, and to connect it with certain broad lines of human and general thought and with certain broad principles of human nature. After showing the scope of the system, and the spirit in which it ought to be studied, the author seeks in successive chapters to trace out the theoretical roots of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, to estimate the value of his doctrine that art, ethics and religion liberate man from the practical bondage of life, to give a critical statement of his metaphysic, and finally to gather up the positive results of the whole system. Mr. Caldwell has spared no pains in the execution of this comprehensive task, and it may be safely said that no student of modern philosophy, and indeed, no one who is interested in the speculative problems of the present day, can afford to neglect this important work. Whether he agrees or not with the author’s high estimate of Schopenhauer, and with the supreme importance which he assigns to the practical life, every sympathetic reader will find himself stimulated and aided by the forcible presentation of problems of perennial interest and importance.&#xD;&#xA;">Recensionen</span></u><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="In … Recensionen. ] gemeint sind offenbar dem an Vaihinger übersandten Exemplar von Caldwell: Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance (1896) beigelegte Rezensionen, darunter vermutlich diejenige von John Watson (vgl. Edward Caird an Vaihinger vom 14.12.1897) in: Queen’s Quarterly 4 (1897), Nr. 3 von März, S. 232: In this scholarly work, Mr. Caldwell endeavours to suggest the significance of Schopenhauer’s thought as an organic whole, and to connect it with certain broad lines of human and general thought and with certain broad principles of human nature. After showing the scope of the system, and the spirit in which it ought to be studied, the author seeks in successive chapters to trace out the theoretical roots of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, to estimate the value of his doctrine that art, ethics and religion liberate man from the practical bondage of life, to give a critical statement of his metaphysic, and finally to gather up the positive results of the whole system. Mr. Caldwell has spared no pains in the execution of this comprehensive task, and it may be safely said that no student of modern philosophy, and indeed, no one who is interested in the speculative problems of the present day, can afford to neglect this important work. Whether he agrees or not with the author’s high estimate of Schopenhauer, and with the supreme importance which he assigns to the practical life, every sympathetic reader will find himself stimulated and aided by the forcible presentation of problems of perennial interest and importance.&#xD;&#xA;">.</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-editorial-4" id="app-editorial-4-ref" title="In … Recensionen. ] gemeint sind offenbar dem an Vaihinger übersandten Exemplar von Caldwell: Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance (1896) beigelegte Rezensionen, darunter vermutlich diejenige von John Watson (vgl. Edward Caird an Vaihinger vom 14.12.1897) in: Queen’s Quarterly 4 (1897), Nr. 3 von März, S. 232: In this scholarly work, Mr. Caldwell endeavours to suggest the significance of Schopenhauer’s thought as an organic whole, and to connect it with certain broad lines of human and general thought and with certain broad principles of human nature. After showing the scope of the system, and the spirit in which it ought to be studied, the author seeks in successive chapters to trace out the theoretical roots of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, to estimate the value of his doctrine that art, ethics and religion liberate man from the practical bondage of life, to give a critical statement of his metaphysic, and finally to gather up the positive results of the whole system. Mr. Caldwell has spared no pains in the execution of this comprehensive task, and it may be safely said that no student of modern philosophy, and indeed, no one who is interested in the speculative problems of the present day, can afford to neglect this important work. Whether he agrees or not with the author’s high estimate of Schopenhauer, and with the supreme importance which he assigns to the practical life, every sympathetic reader will find himself stimulated and aided by the forcible presentation of problems of perennial interest and importance.">[4]</a></p><p class="ED-p">Bitte sehen Sie was <u><span class="ED-name">Watson</span></u> – (Canada – der beruhmteste speculativ. phil. – “America’s” sagt …</p></div><h2 class="ED-app-title">Kommentar zum Textbefund</h2><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-1"><span class="ED-app-num">a</span><a href="#app-philological-1-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">hat</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>Einfügung über der Zeile</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-2"><span class="ED-app-num">b</span><a href="#app-philological-2-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">…</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>hier und im Folgenden Auslassungspunkte zur Andeutung des in Gedanken hinzuzufügenden wie in der Vorlage; Orthographie ebenfalls wie in der Vorlage.</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-3"><span class="ED-app-num">c</span><a href="#app-philological-3-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem"><span class="ED-lem">Achtung! … corrigiren]</span></span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span> Absatz mit Tinte umrahmt; Interpunktion und Orthographie hier und im Folgenden wie in der Vorlage.</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-4"><span class="ED-app-num">d</span><a href="#app-philological-4-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">philosophischen</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>verschliffen geschrieben</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-5"><span class="ED-app-num">e</span><a href="#app-philological-5-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">Vierteljahrsschrift</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>darüber am Kopf der neuen <abbr title="Seite" class="ED-abbr">S.</abbr> Zählung <span class="ED-rdg">2</span></div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-6"><span class="ED-app-num">f</span><a href="#app-philological-6-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem"><u>Mind</u></span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>darüber zwei Kreuze mit Tinte</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-7"><span class="ED-app-num">g</span><a href="#app-philological-7-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">February 2/1897</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>Einfügung über der Zeile</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-8"><span class="ED-app-num">h</span><a href="#app-philological-8-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem"><abbr title="Band" class="ED-abbr">Bd.</abbr> 1897 p 573</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>Einfügung unter der Zeile</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-9"><span class="ED-app-num">i</span><a href="#app-philological-9-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">Darf</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>darüber am Kopf der neuen <abbr title="Seite" class="ED-abbr">S.</abbr> Zählung <u><span class="ED-rdg">Seite 3</span></u></div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-10"><span class="ED-app-num">j</span><a href="#app-philological-10-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">geschr.</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>Einfügung über der Zeile</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-11"><span class="ED-app-num">k</span><a href="#app-philological-11-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">International</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>darüber am Kopf der neuen <abbr title="Seite" class="ED-abbr">S.</abbr> Zählung <span class="ED-rdg">4</span></div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-12"><span class="ED-app-num">l</span><a href="#app-philological-12-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem"><u><span class="ED-name">Eucken</span></u></span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>darüber von Caldwells <abbr title="Hand" class="ED-abbr">Hd.</abbr> verdeutlichend: <span class="ED-rdg">Eucken</span></div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-13"><span class="ED-app-num">m</span><a href="#app-philological-13-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">durfen</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>darüber am Kopf der neuen <abbr title="Seite" class="ED-abbr">S.</abbr> Zählung <span class="ED-rdg">5</span></div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-14"><span class="ED-app-num">n</span><a href="#app-philological-14-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">in <u>Hochachtung</u></span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>am rechten <abbr title="Rand" class="ED-abbr">Rd.</abbr> mit drei Pfeilen Hinweis <span class="ED-rdg">Bitte! uber </span>(bitte wenden!)</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-15"><span class="ED-app-num">o</span><a href="#app-philological-15-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">W. C.</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>darunter Querstrich über die ganze Seite</div><h2 class="ED-app-title">Kommentar der Herausgeber</h2><div class="ED-app-editorial" id="app-editorial-1"><span class="ED-app-num">1</span><a href="#app-editorial-1-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem"><u>Selbstanzeigen</u> in dem <u>Kantstudien</u></span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span><abbr title="vergleiche" class="ED-abbr">vgl.</abbr> den Abdruck in: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), <abbr title="Seite" class="ED-abbr">S.</abbr> 117–118: <span class="ED-rdg">Caldwell, W., Professor. Dr. Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance. Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1896. (XVIII and 527 p.) Although nearly all Schopenhauer’s writings had been translated into English, and although interesting lives of Schopenhauer had been written in English by Helen Zimmern and by the late Professor Wallace of Oxford, there was in English no extended and comprehensive study of Schopenhauer’s philosophy as a whole. This book was conceived as an attempt to meet this want. And also as an attempt to deal in a broad free way with the significance of Schopenhauer’s philosophy for the thought of to-day. […] I have thus occupied myself not merely with Schopenhauer as a „scholastic” philosopher […] nor yet merely with the inconsistencies and one-sidednesses of Schopenhauer, as do many critics. My volume is, I trust, supplementary to the classical treatises of Kuno Fischer and Ribot, and to the careful apologies of Frauenstädt. […] Schopenhauer’s pessimism I study as Illusionism. I do not think that his philosophy is adequately described as pessimism. It is far more than that. A great deal of it may be incorporated with the best thought of to-day. The book consists of the matter of the Shaw Fellowship Lectures which I, in my turn, delivered at Edinburgh University, Scotland. The Shaw Fellowship is the most important encouragement and endowment that exists in Scotland for the study of philosophy. The holder is expected to travel and study in the interest of philosophy and then to present the result of his study of some prominent philosophical question to the public, first in lectures and then in book form. The author was called from Scotland to America, first to the Sage School of Philosophy in Cornell University, and then later to his present position. Evanston, Ill. U. S. A. W. Caldwell.</span></div><div class="ED-app-editorial" id="app-editorial-2"><span class="ED-app-num">2</span><a href="#app-editorial-2-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">Vierteljahrsschrift</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>meint: Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie</div><div class="ED-app-editorial" id="app-editorial-3"><span class="ED-app-num">3</span><a href="#app-editorial-3-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem"><u>eine Postkarte</u></span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>nicht ermittelt</div><div class="ED-app-editorial" id="app-editorial-4"><span class="ED-app-num">4</span><a href="#app-editorial-4-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem"><span class="ED-lem">In … Recensionen.</span></span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span> gemeint sind offenbar dem an Vaihinger übersandten Exemplar von Caldwell: Schopenhauer’s System in its Philosophical Significance (1896) beigelegte Rezensionen, darunter vermutlich diejenige von <span class="ED-name">John Watson</span> (<abbr title="vergleiche" class="ED-abbr">vgl.</abbr><span class="ED-rdg"><i> Edward Caird an Vaihinger vom 14.12.1897)</i><i> </i></span>in: Queen’s Quarterly 4 (1897), <abbr title="Nummer" class="ED-abbr">Nr</abbr>. 3 von März, <abbr title="Seite" class="ED-abbr">S.</abbr> 232: <span class="ED-rdg">In this scholarly work, Mr. Caldwell endeavours to suggest the significance of Schopenhauer’s thought as an organic whole, and to connect it with certain broad lines of human and general thought and with certain broad principles of human nature. After showing the scope of the system, and the spirit in which it ought to be studied, the author seeks in successive chapters to trace out the theoretical roots of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, to estimate the value of his doctrine that art, ethics and religion liberate man from the practical bondage of life, to give a critical statement of his metaphysic, and finally to gather up the positive results of the whole system. Mr. Caldwell has spared no pains in the execution of this comprehensive task, and it may be safely said that no student of modern philosophy, and indeed, no one who is interested in the speculative problems of the present day, can afford to neglect this important work. Whether he agrees or not with the author’s high estimate of Schopenhauer, and with the supreme importance which he assigns to the practical life, every sympathetic reader will find himself stimulated and aided by the forcible presentation of problems of perennial interest and importance.</span></div></div></body></html>