# Metaphysical will

- Id: `metaphysical_will`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/metaphysical-will/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `6c76b63cf38426b5a2e310cade4de8a015a6e5226ea6700960e340ac0f05910c`

## Summary

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.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 190 passages across 2 works, including texts still being qualified. 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-14",
    "passage:schopenhauer.will_in_nature:animal-magnetism-and-magic.segment-05",
    "passage:schopenhauer.world:supplement-17"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "volonté comme chose en soi",
    "will as thing in itself",
    "Wille als Ding an sich"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 190,
    "thinkers": 0,
    "traditions": 0
}
```