Arthur Schopenhauer · Philosophy
Schopenhauer’s decisive move: through our own body, known from the inside, we discover what the thing-in-itself is - blind, striving <em>will</em>. And the same will, he argues, is the inner reality of everything: gravity, magnetism, plant growth, animal instinct, human desire. One groundless striving objectifies itself as the whole world.
You learned that Schopenhauer identifies the thing-in-itself as will : known first through our own body (which we experience both as representation and from within as willing), then recognised as the single inner reality objectified in all of nature. Explain the move from the body to the world-will.
Leads to Benedict de Spinoza.
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