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Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will”

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Argument for Extending Will

He puts our guilt about actual solipsism. He says, whether other representations have wills is precisely the same question as whether the external world exists. And then of course it exists. So therefore other things must have wills. We can't prove that exists, but only another we don't even have to. But so that's the argument. Obviously, will must extend to everything. That's the only alternative.

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