Metaphysical will

Metaphysical will names Schopenhauer’s blind and ceaseless striving of which phenomena are said to be expressions; this historical thesis is not a scientific explanation of life.

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Lexical variants: volonté comme chose en soi, will as thing in itself, Wille als Ding an sich