Introduction ; Wonder : a starting point - a category for investigation?
A riddle and its answer ; The inward turn of philosophy and the metaphysics of the will ; Aesthetic contemplation
Philosophy as : aesthetic ; Confronting the fear of death : Schopenhauer's methods in conflict? ; The aesthetic standpoint of philosophy ; Inward, outward - forward through rational argument? The "argument from analogy" revisited
Philosophy as : sublime ; Sub specie aeternitatis : philosophy as a practice of the sublime ; An "intoxicating vision" : the philosophical sublime in its context and phenomenology
Reading Schopenhauer ; Why read Schopenhauer? Philosophical approaches and appraisals ; Argument and expression in Schopenhauer's philosophy ; Re-examining Schopenhauer's pessimism
From aesthetics to ethics ; Engaging Schopenhauer ethically : a leap? ; The cosmic viewpoint in context : flights of the soul in ancient philosophy ; Greatness of soul : a standpoint and its ethical character
An ethics of redescent? ; Regaining the open sea : certainty, vulnerability, humility ; Greatness of soul and the quest for the good.
