/lit/ - Literature

>>7087999
the will is a foundational flaw in those Enlightenment ideas of society and its actors, god has been taken out of the equation but will continues to be treated as a consistent concept, when really we often mean quite unclear things by it.
We're left with things like the debate about free will, where we need that idea for our idea of society to function and feel right but we can't prove it's real or adequately formulate it, or the mystic worship of Will to mean any number of things by post-Schopenhauer writers. Will was an idea in Western Christianity to explain the nature of sin and how we can be held responsible for our actions despite an omnipotent god, and we need to reformulate this idea now that foundation is no longer there
Augustine is the origin for the concept of 'will' as used in Western philosophy, to mean an act of consciously defying God or morality, which he equates to god; the 'willfulness' of a child acting out for its own sake is in Augustine equated with human sin. There's a clear continuity between this Christian theological concept of will and its appropriation by Schopenhauer etc
The use of the word Will in translations of earlier texts is apparently misleading, I've forgotten the details but a greek word commonly equated with it would've had quite a different meaning, does anyone know?

>>7054881
>self bj

>>7042549
>still living through women.

how beta are you Op ?

>>7040948
>You're right about philosophy and value judgements but seriously fuck you sound sad.
>truth hurts me too much, so I just insult people instead, thereby acknowledging that I am a weak little worm