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[filed under theme 20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act
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Full Idea
Only the will is thing-in-itself. ...It appears in every blindly acting force of nature, and also in the deliberate conduct of man, and the great difference between the two concerns only the degree of the manifestation.
Gist of Idea
Only the will is thing-in-itself, seen both in blind nature and in human action
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Idea [1819], I 110), quoted by Christopher Janaway - Schopenhauer 3 'Will'
Book Ref
Janaway,Christopher: 'Schopenhauer' [OUP 2002], p.37
A Reaction
If will acts 'blindly' in forces of nature, then these seems to be the same concept as Nietzsche's 'will to power'. This seems to be heading towards Heidegger's Dasein, as a central and distinctive mode of being.
The
43 ideas
from 'The World as Will and Idea'
8116
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The will-less contemplation of art brings a liberation from selfhood
[Schopenhauer, by Gardner]
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5649
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Will casts aside each of its temporary fulfilments, so human life has no ultimate aim
[Schopenhauer, by Scruton]
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21923
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Schopenhauer can't use force/energy instead of 'will', because he is not a materialist
[Lewis,PB on Schopenhauer]
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21926
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Schopenhauer, unlike other idealists, says reality is irrational
[Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
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7187
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Schopenhauer was caught in Christian ideals, because he didn't deify his 'will'
[Nietzsche on Schopenhauer]
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21370
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Schopenhauer is a chief proponent of aesthetic experience as 'disinterested'
[Schopenhauer, by Janaway]
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4162
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The world only exists in relation to something else, as an idea of the one who conceives it
[Schopenhauer]
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4163
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All perception is intellectual
[Schopenhauer]
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4164
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Direct feeling of the senses are merely data; perception of the world comes with understanding causes
[Schopenhauer]
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12171
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Absurdity is incongruity between correct and false points of view
[Schopenhauer]
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21922
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We know reality because we know our own bodies and actions
[Schopenhauer]
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21365
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Only the will is thing-in-itself, seen both in blind nature and in human action
[Schopenhauer]
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21367
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I know both aspects of my body, as representation, and as will
[Schopenhauer]
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21371
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We can never attain happiness while our will is pursuing desires
[Schopenhauer]
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21928
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The Sublime fights for will-less knowing, when faced with a beautiful threat to humanity
[Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
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21374
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We should no more expect ethical theory to produce good people than aesthetics to produce artists
[Schopenhauer]
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21913
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Kant rightly separates appearance and thing-in-itself
[Schopenhauer]
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21366
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Metaphysics must understand the world thoroughly, as a principal source of knowledge
[Schopenhauer]
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4166
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A consciousness without an object is no consciousness
[Schopenhauer]
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4167
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The knowing subject and the crude matter of the world are both in themselves unknowable
[Schopenhauer]
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4165
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Descartes found the true beginning of philosophy with the Cogito, in the consciousness of the individual
[Schopenhauer]
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4168
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Matter and intellect are inseparable correlatives which only exist relatively, and for each other
[Schopenhauer]
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21927
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Schopenhauer emphasises Ideas in art, unlike most romantics
[Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
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4169
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Every true act of will is also at once and without exception a movement of the body
[Schopenhauer]
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4170
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Man's actions are not free, because they follow strictly from impact of motive on character
[Schopenhauer]
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4171
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Philosophy considers only the universal, in nature as everywhere else
[Schopenhauer]
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4172
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Happiness is the swift movement from desire to satisfaction, and then again on to desire
[Schopenhauer]
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21369
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We have hidden and unadmitted desires and fears, suppressed because of vanity
[Schopenhauer]
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21380
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The only aim of our existence is to grasp that non-existence would be better
[Schopenhauer]
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4173
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If we were essentially intellect rather than will, our moral worth would depend on imagined motives
[Schopenhauer]
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4174
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Man is more beautiful than anything else, and the loftiest purpose of art is to reveal his nature
[Schopenhauer]
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4175
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It is as perverse to resent our individuality being replaced by others, as to resent the body renewing itself
[Schopenhauer]
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4176
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We all regard ourselves a priori as free, but see from experience that character and motive compel us
[Schopenhauer]
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4177
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Most people would probably choose non-existence at the end of their life, rather than relive the whole thing
[Schopenhauer]
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4178
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Christianity is a pessimistic religion, in which the world is equated with evil
[Schopenhauer]
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4179
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The essence of nature is the will to life itself
[Schopenhauer]
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4180
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Religion is the mythical clothing of the truth which is inaccessible to the crude human intellect
[Schopenhauer]
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4181
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Every good is essentially relative, for it has its essential nature only in its relation to a desiring will
[Schopenhauer]
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4182
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A principal pleasure of the beautiful is that it momentarily silences the will
[Schopenhauer]
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4185
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Altruistic people make less distinction than usual between themselves and others
[Schopenhauer]
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4184
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Virtue must spring from an intuitive recognition that other people are essentially like us
[Schopenhauer]
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4183
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Only self-love can motivate morality, but that also makes it worthless
[Schopenhauer]
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4186
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Everyone is conscious of all philosophical truths, but philosophers bring them to conceptual awareness
[Schopenhauer]
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