489 Schopenhauer (aka The Tunnel and The Hole)
The History of Literature
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The Will to Life
Schopenhauer said that reality has an inner nature and an outer one. The inner one for humans is the will striving to stay alive all the time. This will to life is an incredible force, it's seemingly relentless and all consuming. We're going to talk about what Schopenhauer did after he made these discoveries. He quit the Academy in a huff,. Unless it was as his mother's son. Liberty was reading his books.
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