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- Schopenhauer's pessimism involves a negative assessment of the life of insatiable striving and egoism to which the will condemns the individual. Aesthetic experience provides an escape into a will‐less state of consciousness. Ethics is founded on the recognition that individuation is basically illusory and egoism an erroneous impulse to action.
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Nov 20, 2017 · Schopenhauer asserts that ‘the will, which is objectified in human life as it is in every appearance, is a striving without aim and without end’.
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According to Schopenhauer, denial of the will to live is the way to salvation from suffering. Salvation can only result from the recognition that individuality is nothing more than an illusion—the world in itself cannot be divided into individuals—which 'tranquilizes' the will.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- 1818
One denies the will by resisting and opposing one’s own body and one’s own individuality. Schopenhauer says that opposing the body and refusing individuality allow oneself to transcend the limitedness pertaining to self-interest and egoism.
On the Freedom of the Will (German: Ueber die Freiheit des Willens) is an essay presented to the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences in 1838 by Arthur Schopenhauer as a response to the academic question that they had posed: "Is it possible to demonstrate human free will from self-consciousness?"
In this essay, I try to show how Schopenhauer’s theory of the will is developed, in great part, as a response to Kant’s philosophy, particularly to Kant’s denial that we can ever know things as they really are, and also how his theory addresses certain problems in the Cartesian dualism between body and mind.
The point is this: As will evolves into living things, it develops consciousness (or mind, or what Schopenhauer calls "knowledge") in order to help will achieve its wants. We see even in most plants, for example, some elemental awareness of where light is coming from.
Aug 25, 2024 · Abstract. Arthur Schopenhauer’s metaphysical philosophy, particularly his concepts of the "Will" and "Representation," provides a profound and often pessimistic lens through which to view the ...
