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Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will”

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Importance of Knowing the Inner Nature of Things

"He was presenting an incredibly strong argument that the world is just plain before us, and then saying, but we don't see the inside of it," he says. "It seemed to me that all you would have to do is say, well, the world is plainly just the manifestations of those motions ... And it's laid out before us." He adds: "I found myself over and over and over again, feeling like he was regularly just undermining himself"

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