Schopenhauer on the Role of the Intellect in Human Cognition

Southwest Philosophy Review 29 (1) (2013)
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In Schopenhauer’s thought, the will’s primacy over the intellect seems to suggest that the intellect plays no role in determining what we do. I provide an alternative picture of the intellect as actively deliberating and choosing in abstract cognition from what it passively receives from the will in natural cognition.

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