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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521571418 © The text of the Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will, translated by Eric F. J. Payne, is copyright © Department of Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries. All rights reserved. © in the editorial matter Cambridge University Press 1999 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1999 Reprinted 2003, 2004 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788–1860. [Preisschrift über die Freiheit des Willens. English] Prize essay on the freedom of the will / Arthur Schopenhauer: edited by Günter Zöller; translated by Eric F. J. Payne. p. cm. – (Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy) Includes index. ISBN 0 521 57141 3 (hardback) – ISBN 0 521 57766 7 (paperback) 1. Free will and determinism. I. Zöller, Günter, 1954– . II. Title. III. Series. B3144.U352E5 1999 123´.5–dc21 98–22360 CIP ISBN-13 978-0-521-57141-8 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-57141-3 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-57766-3 paperback ISBN-10 0-521-57766-7 paperback Transferred to digital printing 2005

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