| 0:00.0 | Pan, pan, psychist. |
| 0:05.0 | Part three, the world as will. Our vital energy comes from the will, which is wild, unprincipled, |
| 0:26.1 | amoral, a universe which is not necessarily structured and limited by a rational benign plan, |
| 0:32.7 | one where we cannot touch bottom, but which is nevertheless the locus of our dark genesis. |
| 0:38.9 | Something which comes from the depths has its own numinosity. |
| 0:43.5 | The primitive has power on which we need to draw, all before which we stand in awe, |
| 0:49.5 | even as we may have to limit it, resist it. |
| 0:53.7 | A little flavor. |
| 0:54.8 | We haven't done enough of quoting Schopenhauer, I don't think, in this series yet. |
| 0:58.3 | Now we'll drop some beautiful quotes like that one there. |
| 1:01.9 | You might not understand what that is just yet, but that's what this whole installment's about. |
| 1:06.0 | What is the will? |
| 1:07.8 | So in this installment, we're going to be talking about exactly what the will is. This is the |
| 1:11.6 | second part of Schopenhauer's The Worlders' Will and Representation. We spoke in last week's |
| 1:18.3 | installment about the representation side. And I think that's the logical place to start if you |
| 1:22.5 | haven't approached Schopenhauer before, and that's how he proposes it in his book. I look at the world. |
| 1:26.7 | Well, what is the world? What is this world which is represented in my mind? I thought we did a good job, |
| 1:33.4 | like I said, I've been packing that. Should we remind listeners exactly where we finished |
| 1:37.2 | our last installment so we can segue into this one? What do we say the world seems to be? |
| 1:42.7 | Well, we said that in the world of representation, it is intelligible, |
| 1:47.4 | as in it makes sense to us, because our mind imposes certain order onto it. And Schopenhauer said |
| 1:54.0 | that there are four major ways to make sense of this structured world that we have. And he says |
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