title: Arthur Schopenhauer’s doctrine of free will
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metadata.value: Vasilieva, Marina Yu.
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metadata.value: 2023-10-05T12:45:37Z
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metadata.value: 2023-10-05T12:45:37Z
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metadata.value: 2021
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metadata.value: Vasilieva M. Yu. Arthur Schopenhauer’s doctrine of free will. Philosophy of the History of Philosophy, 2021, vol. 2, рр. 181–199. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu34.2021.112 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu34.2021.112
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44094
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metadata.value: The article is devoted to the consideration of the phenomenon of free will in the
  philosophical system of Arthur Schopenhauer, the identification of the lines of continuity
  of this problem and the discovery of new and specific features in the development
  by the German thinker of the question of free will, on the basis of the use of
  methods of historical and philosophical analysis and rational reconstruction. The
  article demonstrates Schopenhauer’s desire to avoid two opposite poles in the solution
  of the question of free will, one of which asserts the fact of the dominance of
  rigid necessity over the events of nature, and the other, on the contrary, deduces
  everything from a certain universal act of will. The third alternative proposed by
  Schopenhauer in continuation with the ideas of I. Kant’s transcendental idealism is
  analyzed in detail. The author focuses on the modifications Schopenhauer himself
  made to Kant’s concept of the co-existence of freedom and necessity. Schopenhauer’s
  attitude to the concept of fatalism is considered separately and his understanding
  of necessity as such is clarified. The main point of the first part is the statement that
  the world has not only an empirical side, reflecting the existence of phenomena in accordance with the law of sufficient reason in a certain time and space, but also an
  intelligible side, identical with the baseless will. In addition, the author emphasizes
  the importance of the premise of autocracy, independence as a basic characteristic
  of free will. In the second part of this article, the relation of the empirical and intelligible
  nature of the world in relation to the analysis of human behavior is revealed in
  more detail. The relationship between the original autonomy of the will, freedom and
  moral responsibility is clarified. The author reconstructs Schopenhauer’s arguments
  in the work “On the Freedom of the Will”. The fallacy of the empirical understanding
  of free will is revealed and the possibility of transcendental freedom is justified. The
  key thesis of the second part of the article is reduced to the statement that it is impossible
  to find true freedom in individual concrete actions of a person; that a person in
  her particular manifestations cannot choose to be this way or to be different.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philosophy of the History of Philosophy;Volume 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: free will
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: empirical character
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intelligible character
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: autocracy of will
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: necessity
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: responsibility
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: motive
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Arthur Schopenhauer’s doctrine of free will
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