Thursday, November 14, 2019

Creating-Created and Will-Representation

Spinoza's Naturing Nature and Natured Nature can be conceived as a contrast of Creating and Created.  Creating and Created has more in common with Schopenhauer's Will-Representation duality than with Whitehead's Process-Reality.  For, like the former, but not the latter, the two terms are simultaneous, rather than consecutive, i. e. two aspects of one and the same development.  Now, Spinoza's Intuition of Creating is comparable to Schopenhauer's cognition of Will as expressed in Music--each achieves a liberation from suffering from the Emotions.  However, one significant distinction between the two ecstatic moments is that in Spinoza's, Individuation is revealed as itself a creative development, whereas for Schopenhauer, for whom Individuation is groundless, it remains the source of suffering.  Accordingly, Spinoza's doctrine affirms Creating, while Schopenhauer's seeks the denial of the Will.  Nietzsche can be conceived as abandoning the latter for the former as his career develops.  Meanwhile, Kant is not part of this tradition, even though Schopenhauer's Will-Representation contrast is derived from his Noumenon-Phenomenon one.  For, he is insistent that his Noumenal realm is Supernatural, thereby clearly distancing his system from any Naturalism, of which each of these other three pairs is a variety.

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