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The World as Will and Representation is Schopenhauer’s monumental work on metaphysics and human desire. It argues that the world we perceive is only a representation shaped by our minds, while beneath it lies an irrational, unconscious force he calls the will. This will is the root of suffering and endless striving.
What struck me was the brutal honesty about the nature of desire and pain. Schopenhauer’s philosophy encourages a form of resignation and aesthetic contemplation as a way to escape the ceaseless demands of the will.
Books to continue this path:
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, Schopenhauer
Parerga and Paralipomena, Schopenhauer
Essays and Aphorisms, Schopenhauer
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