Os conceitos de vontade e representação no entendimento do mundo segundo Arthur Schopenhauer.

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Antunes Ferreira da
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/5613
• topic: Vontade; Representação; Pessimismo Metafísico; Otimismo Prático; Will; Representation; Metaphysical Pessimism; Practical Optimism; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA

The present dissertation consists in a research theoretical and bibliographical about the concepts of will and representation in understanding of the world, In order to demonstrate the connection between the concept of Will and the pessimistic aspect of philosophy by Schopenhauer, and between the concept of representation and the singular possibility of quieting the suffering generated by Will, this work is supported by the writings of the author himself and some commentators therefore was constructed as a dialogue with the philosopher on his theory, a bibliographic analysis thereof. The world is divided in two realities: the noumenal, the thing itself, a blind force, named Will, and the phenomenal, the subjective representations made by the the knowing subject. The noumenal reality, the Will, in humans causes a cycle of desires never satiated and prevent them from being happy. Schopenhauer's pessimism is sustained in the concept of Will. However, a state of bliss can be achieved, since we subdue the will to knowledge by the aesthetic contemplation , which abstracts the man momentarily from suffering; from compassion, which makes the individual forms disappear, making the man understand the other as himself, and finally through the asceticism, which mortifies definitely the Will, suppressing the material desires and bodily. Therefore, the possibility of a Blessed life, always singular, can only be achieved by the singularity existing in concept of representation.