# Denial of the will

- Id: `denial_of_will`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/denial-of-the-will/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `d8f9521f46ffcaa96bd49b1961243855cd5842a80bc3a539fa14e87947cbb473`

## Summary

Denial of the will describes an ascetic break with the ceaseless affirmation of desire; it recommends neither suicide nor the destruction of a person.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 125 passages across 4 works, including The Birth of Tragedy, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:schopenhauer.world:supplement-48",
    "passage:nietzsche.twilight_idols:b0069",
    "passage:nietzsche.ecce_homo:b0061"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "négation de la volonté",
    "denial of the will",
    "Verneinung des Willens"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 4,
    "passages": 125,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.birth_of_tragedy",
        "title": "The Birth of Tragedy",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/birth-of-tragedy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.ecce_homo",
        "title": "Ecce Homo",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/ecce-homo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.twilight_idols",
        "title": "Twilight of the Idols",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/twilight-idols/"
    }
]
```