# Principle of individuation

- Id: `principium_individuationis`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/principle-of-individuation/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `eb2e2c84857db8fd49aefed958924cc6142818ef0eb94f20408e08894c7d323e`

## Summary

The principle of individuation explains how space and time make beings appear multiple and separate although, for Schopenhauer, they participate in one will.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 136 passages across 9 works, including An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Psychological Types, The Birth of Tragedy. 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:schopenhauer.will_in_nature:animal-magnetism-and-magic.segment-02",
    "passage:schopenhauer.basis_of_morality:section-22"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "principe d’individuation",
    "principium individuationis"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 9,
    "passages": 136,
    "thinkers": 4,
    "traditions": 2
}
```

## Related traditions

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

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "locke.essay_human_understanding",
        "title": "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
    },
    {
        "id": "jung.psychologische_typen",
        "title": "Psychological Types",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychologische-typen/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.birth_of_tragedy",
        "title": "The Birth of Tragedy",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/birth-of-tragedy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_contra_gentiles",
        "title": "Summa Contra Gentiles",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-contra-gentiles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
        "title": "Summa Theologiae",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologiae/"
    }
]
```