In his prize-winning essay “On the Freedom of the Will,” Schopenhauer follows Kant in espousing a kind of compatibilism. Nature is deterministic but the possibility of freedom is guaranteed by the “in itself” of the world which is independent of the PSR and is in that way undetermined (see Shapshay, 2011 for an account of Schopenhauer’s fuller argument for this claim).
Schopenauer, Arthur Arthur Schopenauer nasce a Danzica (Polonia) nel 1788: suo padre era banchiere, sua madre una nota scrittrice di romanzi.
ABSTRACT: This article pretends to show the link between Schopenhauer’s interpretation over tragedy and his ethical project, as developed in his masterpiece The world as Will and Representation. Before that, the essay shows the many interpretations of greek and modern tragedy, that leads to Schopenhauer’s singular point of view.
Golding’s Metaphysics - William Golding’s Novels in the Light of Arthur Schopenhauer’s Philosophy.