Representing Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy Now
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The Importance of Will to Life
"Our essence is to will, but the will isn't necessarily rational," he says. "It's a striving of what? It's a sort of substance or nature." He sees the drive to reproduce and hence the sex drive as the human essence. 'We're in the grip of this drive - it leads to suffering'
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