/lit/ - Literature

Die Welt ist meiner Wille, aber auch es ist meine Vorstellung.

>>23432935
this

Will is the thing-in-itself, the inner content, the essence of the world. Life, the visible world, the phenomenon, is only the mirror of the will.

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>>23115081
read now

>>22839797

>>22834492
>The fourfold root part I didnt get.
>claims he understood WWR
lol sure you did little buddy

>The second demand is this, that the introduction be read before the book itself, although it is not contained in the book, but appeared five years earlier under the title, "Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde: eine philosophische Abhandlung" (On the fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason: a philosophical essay). Without an acquaintance with this introduction and propadeutic it is absolutely impossible to understand the present work properly.

and as for Kant
>I have already explained in the preface to the first edition, that my philosophy is founded on that of Kant, and therefore presupposes a thorough knowledge of it.

and especially
>he who has not mastered the Kantian philosophy, whatever else he may have studied, is, as it were, in a state of innocence; that is to say, he remains in the grasp of that natural and childish realism in which we are all born, and which fits us for everything possible, with the single exception of philosophy. Such a man then stands to the man who knows the Kantian philosophy as a minor to a man of full age.

>All that in any way belongs or can belong to the world is inevitably thus conditioned through the subject, and exists only for the subject. The world is idea.