According to one thinker, the lowest grade of this concept’s objectification is exemplified by natural forces such as gravity and electricity. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this “blind incessant impulse” central to our instincts according to a 1818 book. That book also argues aesthetic contemplation, especially with music, can escape the “blind striving” of this concept.
ANSWER: will [accept The World as Will and Representation; accept Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung]
[10e] The will is central to The World as Will and Representation, a book by this pessimistic German philosopher who also wrote On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
ANSWER: Arthur Schopenhauer
[10h] According to Schopenhauer, the will is free from all plurality because it lies outside of this principle. G. E. M. Anscombe and Jan Łukasiewicz (“woo-ka-SHEV-itch”) debated whether matter or form was key to Aristotle’s formulation of this principle.
ANSWER: principle of individuation [or principium individuationis]
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