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Representing Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy Now

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The Essence of Everything

I'm saying that inanimate objects have a subjective side to their existence. It's not meaning to impute any consciousness. I think it's a totally misleading way of putting it. So, yeah. Well, tell us what Daniel's wrong then. And he starts by thinking, well, can I discover what I really am? You know, can I discovering what I am independently of the way I appear? What am I really? What's my essence? Okay. Arguys, that my essence is will. But it doesn't mean that the rest of the world has consciousness. No. It just means that everything is in some sense trying to be something. Everything is striving.

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