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You're listening to the partially examined life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who are at one point set on doing philosophy for living with Enthaugh better of it.

Our question for episode 114 is something like what ultimately makes up the world and we read Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will in Representation Volume 1, Book 2, 1st published in 1818.

You can join the discussion, get the text and lots more information at partiallyexaminedlife.com. This is Mark Linson-Meier, existing primarily as a lower level of objectification of the will and Madison was Gonson.

This is Seth Paschinen, Austin, Texas. This is Wes L. One as innocent as a plant in Boston, Massachusetts. This is Dylan Casey, just being gravity in Middleton, Wisconsin.

Why the ground rules? There is no ground. There is no ground. There is only will. It is groundless.

Number one, try not to assume our audience is red, but we're talking about or has any other background in philosophy.

Although we'll refer to our content episodes, I'm sure plenty of times. And actually we did one on Schopenhauer a while back. Not the recent one on art and literature and things, but the older one on the, what's the name of that book?

Poorfold root of the principle of sufficient reason.

Exactly, which he refers to in this book all the time.

Yes, he loves himself.

Number two, don't make arguments that hinge on something other than what we've agreed to read.

What we've agreed to read, in this case, just being Book 2 of the, you know, I don't even want the volume 1, volume 2, volume 3.

That's just because years later he decided he had to write appendices.

So really the book proper is volume 1. I have it as a paper book here. And within that there are four what he calls books.

The first one is the world as idea. So it's actually very redundant of that episode we already had, or the world as representation or presentation, depending on your translation.

So that's all about the phenomenal world, the world of science, the world that we can know something about in ordinary way through perception.

But the one we're focusing on is the second book, the world as will first aspect the objectification of the will, which is all about what is the world, not as we experience it, but as it is in itself.

Well, it is will. So we'll figure out what that means.

So yeah, and the way to think about these four books is the first one of Testimology, the second one metaphysics, the third one aesthetics, and then the fourth ethic.

Mark, you opened the podcast that the question for the day was something what is the world may of?

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