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Posted: 30 Aug 2021

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Schopenhauer explicitly acknowledges his debt to Empedocles, especially for the general concept of existence as a struggle between forces of will -- specifically, Love and Strife: “Everywhere in nature we see strife, conflict, and the fickleness of victory . . . This strife may be seen to pervade the whole of nature, indeed nature . . . exists only through it.” He cites Aristotle’s commentary: “as Empedocles says, if there were no strife in things, everything would be one and the same.” Thus nature reflects a kind of law of the jungle, with each form of existence competing with all others to maintain and fulfill itself.

Schopenhauer saw struggle and strife all around him, and that led to his notoriously pessimistic assessment of life in general. He was exceptional in that instance, most all panpsychist philosophers seem to have adopted sympathetic, compassionate, and optimistic worldviews. . . . Page 145
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