daily life

everyday

forgetfulness

mundanity

routine

work

is a cruel and violence-filled world, a world generated by the application of causality and the direct, double-knowledge of one's body as both subject and object.

Schopenhauer's intermittently-encountered claim that Will is the thing-in-itself only to us, provides philosophical space for him to assert consistently that mystical experience provides a positive insight. It also relativizes to the human condition, Schopenhauer's famous position that the world is Will. This entails that his outlook on daily life as a cruel and violence-filled world a world generated by the application of the principle of sufficient reason, is based on a human-conditioned intuition, namely, the direct, double-knowledge of one's body as both subject and object.

is more instructive than the most effective book.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

is the prime wisdom; all else is fume, or emptiness, or fond impertinence.

To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence.

daily life, n.All

daily life