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published on September 13, 2023
Nuriel Prigal
https://doi.org/10.5840/ipq2023911207
Schopenhauer¡¯s Fourth Way
From the literature on Schopenhauer, it seems that he suggested only three ways of life to contend with the Will. I argue for a fourth, which is intended for the common person. A way that Schopenhauer himself lived by. The fourth way of life is derived from a broader reading of Schopenhauer¡¯s philosophy, that is, reading his philosophy as ways of life. The other three ways relate to the three plains on which life enfolds: relations between the individual and objects, the relations between the individual and other individuals, and the relations between the individual and herself. The fourth way involves all three.