
Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will”
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Strife and the Hierarchy of Will
I wanted to make sure that before we were done here, we talked more about strife. Stryfe comes up in talking about not only it is the principle of individuation at all but also how perception separates out two things and those could potentially run into conflict. But then he also uses his strife to explain the hierarchy, you know, that there are these lower objectifications of will at gravity and then higher ones. There's a striving after higher objectification. I don't know if I can make sense of this whole picture.
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