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Ideas for 'talk', 'Mereology' and 'The World as Will and Idea'

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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

7187	Schopenhauer was caught in Christian ideals, because he didn't deify his 'will' [Nietzsche on Schopenhauer]

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Only the will is thing-in-itself, seen both in blind nature and in human action [Schopenhauer]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

195	No one willingly commits an evil or base act [Socrates]

1653	Socrates did not accept the tripartite soul (which permits akrasia) [Vlastos on Socrates]

5843	People do what they think they should do, and only ever do what they think they should do [Socrates, by Xenophon]

5253	Socrates was shocked by the idea of akrasia, but observation shows that it happens [Aristotle on Socrates]

199	The common belief is that people can know the best without acting on it [Socrates]