{"id":565,"date":"2016-06-24T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=565"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:39:31","slug":"appendix-z30-schopenhauer-v-birnbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX Z30: Schopenhauer v. Birnbaum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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APPENDIX Z30:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Schopenhauer v<\/span>. Bir<\/span>nbaum\n <\/div>\n
from Wikipedia*<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201c<\/span>Arthur Schopenhauer <\/span>(22 <\/span>February <\/span>1788 <\/span>\u2013 <\/span>21 <\/span>S<\/span>e<\/span>p<\/span>t<\/span>e<\/span>m<\/span>b<\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
1860) was a <\/span>German
\n philosopher known <\/span>for his pessi<\/span>mi<\/span>sm\n <\/div>\n
and philosophical clarity<\/span>.
\n At age 25, he published his\n <\/div>\n
doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the <\/span>\n <\/div>\n
Principle of Suf\ue0c4cient Reason, which examined the four <\/span>\n <\/div>\n
separate manifestations of reason in the
\n phenomenal\n <\/div>\n
world.<\/div>\n
Schopenhauer\u2019<\/span>s most
\n in\ue0c5uential work, The W<\/span>orld as Wil<\/span>l <\/span>\n <\/div>\n
and Representation, <\/span>claimed that <\/span>the world <\/span>is <\/span>f<\/span>u<\/span>nd<\/span>a<\/span>m<\/span>en<\/span>t<\/span>a<\/span>ll<\/span>y<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
what humans recognize in themselves as their will.
\n His\n <\/div>\n
analysis of will led him to the conclusion that
\n emotional,\n <\/div>\n
physical, and sexual desires can never be fully
\n satis\ue0c4ed.\n <\/div>\n
The corollary of this is an ultimately painful
\n human\n <\/div>\n
condition. Consequently<\/span>,
\n he considered that a lifestyle\n <\/div>\n
of negating desires, similar to the ascetic
\n teachings of\n <\/div>\n
V<\/span>edanta, Buddhism and the
\n Church Fathers of early\n <\/div>\n
Christianity<\/span>, was the only
\n way to attain liberation.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Schopenhauer\u2019<\/span>s
\n metaphysical analysis of will, his views\n <\/div>\n
on human motivation and desire, and his aphoristic\n <\/div>\n
writing style in\ue0c5uenced many well-known thinkers,\n <\/div>\n
including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard W<\/span>agner<\/span>, Ludwig\n <\/div>\n
W<\/span>ittgenstein, Erwin
\n Schr\u00f6dinger<\/span>, Albert Einstein, Sigmund\n <\/div>\n
Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Leo\n <\/div>\n
T<\/span>olstoy<\/span>, Thomas Mann, and Jorge Luis Borges\u2026.\u201d\n <\/div>\n
from the author \u2013<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
So Schopenhauer\u2019<\/span>s The World as Will and Representation <\/span><\/div>\n
posits that the <\/span>world is
\n fundamentally <\/span>\u2018will\u2019; and \u2018pess<\/span>im<\/span>ist<\/span>–\n <\/div>\n
school\u2019 Schopenhauer comes to the conclusion that\n <\/div>\n
negating \u2018will\u2019 is the \u2018route to liberation.<\/span><\/span>\u2019 <\/span><\/div>\n
Birnbaum\u2019<\/span>s Summa Metaphysica<\/span> posits that the world\n <\/div>\n
is essentially \u2018potential\u2019; and, to continue
\n counterposing\n <\/div>\n
Schpenhauer<\/span>,
\n \u2018optimist-school\u2019 Bir<\/span>nbaum comes to the\n <\/div>\n
(quick) conclusion that proactive<\/span> \u2018Quest for Potential\u2019 is\n <\/div>\n
the true \u2018route to liberation<\/span>.\u2019\n <\/div>\n
*<\/span>W<\/span>ikipedia Online, <\/span>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Schopenhauer (accessed <\/span>May 21, <\/span>2012)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APPENDIX Z30: Schopenhauer v. Birnbaum from Wikipedia* \u201cArthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 \u2013 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Suf\ue0c4cient Reason, which examined the four separate manifestations of reason in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}