The teleology of the will in Schopenhauer

Authors

  • Helio Lopes da Silva Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, MG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378636490

Keywords:

Schopenhauer, Will, Teleology

Abstract

In this paper, I intend to explore the arguments that Schopenhauer advances for his presumed conception of a non-teleological Will, and I intend also to contrast this conception to a “traditional” conception of Will as essentially teleological, or as a capacity for a goal or end-directed acting. In the end, I will suggest that, although the Schopenhauerian conception of Will is not a traditional one, it is not easy to understand it as establishing the Will as fully non-teleological.

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Author Biography

Helio Lopes da Silva, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, MG

Doutor em Filosofia pela USP, Professor Titular do Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto desde 1999.

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SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur. Parerga and Paralipomena. Payne, E.F.J.(trad.). Vol. I. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010.

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Published

2019-04-30

How to Cite

Silva, H. L. da. (2019). The teleology of the will in Schopenhauer. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 10(1), 165–184. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378636490

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2019): Dossier Philosophies of the body + Schopenhauerian Studies

Section

Schopenhauerian Studies

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