Sunday 12th of May 2024, New Orleans – proofread / ed. by Wed 15th, May 2024:
Voluntarism & Subjective Idealism
of A. Schopenhauer
George M Cummins IV
(A brief Overview)
Representation – World, First Aspect
The world is my representation, and the world is, my will. Because of conscious reflection
of ‘vernunft’ (reasoning), only mankind can bring it to its understanding, for: A) Representation is is
determined by causality in indefinite B) space and force of in the change (time) in human
consciousness. Such is one major & only category we all are uniting existence of thing itself which
never can be fully understood. We do not know the idea itself, which is the pure will which forms
the presentation, and we feel it by an acceptance, already by its development in the time and space
(matter then is presupposed by the subject), as an intuitive conditions for imagination of the matter
itself, infinite experience1.
Only a only subject knows an object, and will never to be completely comprehended by an
object.
Intuitive and abstract is knowing (or recognizing of the acceptance, as to that; more the
latter at the will-aspect) as representation and the inner idea, an abstracted view. The fact that time
and space is independent upon matter, which cannot exist without the subject carrying the causal
condition of its comprehension as regards to the matter, proves that time and space are inevitably
necessary for the creation of a concept; the ideal-matter, the Idea, which is subjective.
1 - Only the infinite untimeliness of the presented material of the experience is the cause of never-to-be understood
essence of the will. -- Otherwise we were alike to “gods’ qualities.”
Time and space create meaning; causality unites the space and time. Change (space) and
permanence in duration, figuring as time; cannot bring causality itself.
Will – The World, Second Aspect
Development by considering via 'objectification of the will' as a result in the representation
(intuitive reflection, searching for absolute essence of the framed Idea) of reality & its later
manifestation upon us. It can be seen perhaps as causality then, as the only category, because of its
absolute necessity as a law in plurality. (William Ockham's Razor principle2.) - Schopenhauer is
fascinating, in his outlook which just about everywhere; applied as an universal algorithm upon
what of putting Ideas into such a simple, elegant and just beautiful system of world seemed as one
way, Representation, and the other, pure will.
The second aspect of the world as Will, is will to live, an unattainable mere deception of
possibility to be recognizer, and never-to be comprehended fully. The essence and absolute framed
nature of the thing-in-itself, the idea, which is unattainable, therefore it's the question of absolute
acceptance of the natural deception of Nature itself.
(Man is created to be continuously pulsed and innerly perplexed, by this question, which
makes him not only a philosopher, but also fulfilles his character as given by Nature.)
2 - Paraphrase: “Plurality is possible and based upon a principle of an absolute necessity;” so, then according to that
and only that we can presuppose the less of the most of the closest material is needed over all and everything in
causal order of creation of a judgment. (As regard reducing to the simplest results, and also more precise in all
cases.)