PART ONE
Make an attempt for a formulation and conceiving Schopenhauer's World as Will and
Representation, upon which he based his reputation, is an inappropriately complex task. For the real
conceiving of all the background and basic materials for summarizing and underlining the arguments are
insufficient without reading the work fully. But I will do the best what I can:
A strong influence of Plato, Indian Vedy and especially Immanuel Kant, were leaders for his
path to bring an Eastern form of thought centralized on focusing upon two major aspects of elements in
Pantheistic vision, and so figuring as Will and Representation.
Centralizing upon a single category considered as a category, and therefore one, a major
principle, is effect and cause. A combination of mediate and immediate object. For all we know is but
us, a subject, for all above us, is merely, as it is for us, merely a pure object in its full sense. In this
focus we are getting so close to the thing-in-itself, well-known invention of I. Kant, but here we
maintain the knowledge for hypothesis here. Universe begins as a dogma; each philosophical speculation
weakens its notion and clarity, which is therefore inevitably lost as a logical solution for finding a sure
result. Inseparability of case of causality is major fact of understanding, a logical solution for the
motion of time and space between that mediate and immediate object(s), and therefore already to find a
reason why a solution for never-ending substance we will evoke just now, and are all of us aware, is
logical, for its frightening truth that dwells in its character.
The substance itself is the Will, form of idea of Will, action, is inseparable; and the existence of
the phenomenal world is sufficiently manifested itself as a result of craving of the external Will, the
substratum of all existence, therefore the final manifesto of it, as it is, an external form. This Will, is a
will to be alive.
The world itself is the Will rushing into life. A condition of all existence proving its
omnipotence and freedom.
Then therefore:
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The first place belongs to the Will, the second to the organism, which is its immediate
objectivation, the third to the thought, which is a function of the brain, and consequently of the organism.
Therefore one may say Intelligence is the secondary phenomenon, the organization the primary
phenomenon ; the Will is metaphysical, the Intelligence is physical ; the Intelligence is the semblance,
the Will the thing in itself; and in a still more metaphorical sense : Will is the substance of the man,
Intelligence the accident ; Will is the matter, Intelligence the form ; Will is the heat, Intelligence the
light.'
Major principles coming from it:
¶1
Knowledge presupposes a subject and an object, but it's a primitive and essential
element, as desire, hope, love, same as tendencies for more dream-like behavior.
¶2
Basic knowledge of consciousness of every animal is desire. Well-being reproduce is its
proof. In case of human nature there dwells also selfishness, and then accidental reproduction is to offer
suddenly.
¶3
As we descend Intelligence becomes feebler and more imperfect, while the Will
undergoes no similar degradation. In the smallest insect the Will is entire, it wills what it wills quite as
completely as man. Will is always identical with itself, its function is of the very simplest kind; to will
or not to the will.
¶4
Intelligence tires; Will is being secondary and psychical, which explains why intellectual
work is dedicated for moments of repose, and and what causes degeneration of brain. Childishness and
intellectual feebleness is here because of the body-functioning Will!
¶5
If we take Will's origin from intelligence, is admitted that there is much a will of
knowledge and reason. But intelligence is but a pure instrument of the Will.
¶6
Intellectual gifts have always been held as presents from Nature or the gods. “Moral
virtues are considered as innate, as really interior and personal. Thus all religions have promised eternal
rewards, not to the virtues of the mind,” which are exterior and accidental, but to the virtues of
character, which are the man himself.
¶7
Foundation of the rest of friendships then, is an analogy of intelligence.
¶8
The definition between heart and head is Will and Knowledge. Hearts of heroes, not
their mind, that is but for a poet of a naturally, a philosopher.
¶9
The dependent nature of Intelligence is plainly shown by its character of intermittence
and periodicity. In profound sleep all consciousness ends. Only the centre of our being, is the
metaphysical principle, the primum mobile, does not stop, or life would cease. While the brain rests,
and with it the intelligence, the organic functions continue their work. The brain, whose proper office is
to know, is a sentinel placed in the head by Will, “to guard the outer world through the window of the
senses”.
end of part one of the preamble ¶1.b comes hereafter
NOTE # 2 - INVESTIGATION begotten:
see: the article under the title-link on the right