The World as Will and Idea, Vol. 2 of 3

LibriVox recording of The World as Will and Idea, Vol. 2 of 3 by Arthur Schopenhauer. (Translated by R. B. Haldane; J. Kemp.) Read in English by Expatriate In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root of the reality we see around us is a Will that eternally, insatiably seeks to be satisfied. Each human Subject observes the Objects around her from the perspective of that fundamental Will working within each person. The human observer is distracted by the details of life and individual distinctions that obscure this Will; only by penetrating this “principium individu