/philosophy/ - Philosophy

>All life essentially is suffering.

Nietzsche had a different view. He affirmed life with the will to power. He wrote, "If we affirm one single moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence."

How you stand on the issue is your choice.

>>1699

The concept of will looks like a sub-concept of causality, thus the triad of time and space

>>1701

will to power*

trivia: Matrix ( the movie) was inspired by "The World as Will and Idea".

You can derive the Kantian knowledge of the phenomenon and the thing in itself with the red/blue pill dichotomy

OP here

I finished the book a while ago now

I am finally true to myself

I am neither happy nor unhappy

I am me for once

>>1703

Actually this is false

The red pill doesn't contain any knowledge in itself. It actually contains very concepts which allows us to seperate what is different and reunite what is the same.

Being bluepilled simply means you don't have the structure to correctly assess these truths.

It is known that all truth cannot exist by itself.

It needs concepts to be transmitted. The concepts of will and representation are more than able to contain all the truth there is to grasp.

Abstract concepts are empty in themselves.

In a sense, they are "filled" by intuitive knowledge, which by itself is nothing.

It is only when a concept is filled with the intuitive matter that we can call it a truth.

Collecting intuitive knowledge in solid, stable concepts is the best thing a man can do, for solid concepts can last well enough for the duration of a lifetime, and contain a considerable quantity of tangible knowledge.

Psychanalysis uses the same process, for it's goal is to assess the mental state of an individual with the use of knowledge contained in concepts.

I'm confident in the fact that the concepts of will and representation are suitable for such a task, for I can already guess that what we call a nevrosis is a conflict between the universal, metaphysical Will and individual representations.

If an individual representation doesn't fit the character of the will, dissonances appear. The representation, which is the only variable between all beings, oscillates and is in interference with the will. It then seems apparent that the job of the psychanalyst is to reduce these interferences in order to help the patient get a better representation of the will.

>>1832

With these considerations, we can say that a psychanalyst is the equal of a philosopher in the sense that his concepts are of prime importance when it comes to store intuitive observations.

The world is my representation

The world is my will

Yin-yang

Reconciling an individual's representations with his will is the noblest thing a man can do, for it brings tranquility to the individual's very soul.

When a man's representations is in a near complete accordance to his will (like a function approaches the asymptote), we can say that this man's representations are the truest.

Maybe death is the point where the function touches the asymptote. Will and representation become the same thing. In this sense, we can say that death is the point of reconciliation with the will, and the perpetuation a life a constant offense to it.

>>1835

*perpetuation OF life

fug

I never read Nietzsche's work, and I'm glad to say I never will.

His insanity is probably imputable to a (too) great number of concepts which eventually shattered his memory.

Two is enough.

The problem with a philosophy which uses more than two concepts for the collecting of intuitive observations is that it becomes more and more difficult to diffirentiate what is different and reunite what is the same.

An intuitive information that is stored in more than one concept creates a repetition. The content of the two concepts is the same, but it's form is different.

A man who stores the same intuitive information in a huge number of different concepts is definitely going to go insane, as his memory is overloaded and on the brink of breaking.

Once the thread of memory is broken, it is lost forever.

Your memory is precious. Don't overload it with an excessive number of concepts.

"The World as Will and Idea" is the best introduction to the exploitation of the two concepts.

Understanding the importance of a limited number of concepts should be the philosphy teacher's first mission.

The teacher should simply lay the two concepts and impose them to the students.

He should then accompany them as the students fill these concepts with their personal experiences.

>>1701

Discard that post

I will read it again