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Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will”

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Solipsism of the Body

"The will has no sense of part or distinction, except via objectification. The will is highly sexist," he says. "I cannot imagine this will without my body." It's just because of this special relationship to one body that the knowing subject is an individual, regarded apart from this relation. His body is for him only an idea like all other ideas. Other objects considered merely ideas are like his body that he fills place.

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