Synopsis
The main object is Schopenhauer's assumption that the world is a will on the one hand, and on the other hand is given only as our idea, as already clear in the title. By imagination Schopenhauer understands the mental functions which are responsible for the modality of the recognition of a knowing living being. By Will, Schopenhauer, inspired by Eastern philosophy, understands a cosmic principle of existence which is responsible for the individual existence in the world, and which, among other things, is responsible for its existence. a. as "a blind aimless urge to live". For Schopenhauer, humans, animals, plants, as well as stones or all forms of matter are part of this principle. Schopenhauer sees the thing in the principle of the will. According to Schopenhauer, there is an individuality, a diversity, only in the world of objects. The will forms the unity that exists equally in man and in stone.Schopenhauer is of the opinion that the individual imagination prevents us from recognizing the world as it is, that is, the will, in everything and not only in ourselves. Schopenhauer sees in a conception of the world, which is perceived purely as an idea, which is subjectively measured by the individual will, u. a. an explanation for egoism. In the denial of our individual will, there is a way out of the world as a pure representation through which we can see the same will and suffering in everything. Schopenhauer's metaphysics is thus closely linked to his ethics. A possibility of temporary negation of will, according to Schopenhauer, is the art.
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