
Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will”
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Illusion of Individuality
The most difficult part of his theory is how do we explain our experience of ourselves as individual wills? It's one big will, right? How are we sort of attached and then have this illusion of individuality? Once we're individually this way, why do you show up in my world as a representation? Yes, in a vague sense, it's because we belong to the same unity. But that's it. That's all you get. You don't get any details on how all that works. It's just that there's this unitary thing behind the scenes and it's somehow coordinating everything, right? Yeah. See, it's almost anything, you know, just like discussions of
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