Beyond Good and Evil #3: One Ruling Thought (I.17 - II.25)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Will Is the Most Fundamental Thing That We Know
Schopenhauer basically for whatever argument he goes on to make after that, the starting place I think is very sound. He says the will alone is the most fundamental thing that we know and all these other sort of subjective inner descriptions of our subjective inner content are secondary experiences to that of the will. And so far as we know ourselves subjectively as the subject as the inner content. We can perceive our body as a like to other bodies around us. That will is the fundamental operation of what we are subjects. So Nietzsche continues with the passage quote, but again and again it seems to me that in this case to Schopenhauer only did what philosophers are in the habit of doing
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