
Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will”
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Unpredictability of Nature
The most universal forces of nature exhibit themselves as the lowest grade of the will's objectification. Their particular phenomena alone are subject to the principal's sufficiently and just are the actions meant. But they themselves can never be called either cause or effect, but are the prior and presupposed conditions of all causes and effects through which their own inner being is unfolded and revealed. So when he's talking about gravity, right, it is therefore wrong to say that gravity is the cause of a stone's falling. The causes rather the nearness of the earth since it attracts the stone take away the earth and the stone will not fall,. although gravity remains.
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