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Arthur Schopenhauer's

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

Book II

1. What does Schopenhauer mean by "representation" in #17 and following?

2. The problem, for Book II, is expressed in the last paragraph of #17. What is that problem?

3. What, according to S, is the really real, the thing-in-itself?

4. Paraphrase the last 15 lines on p 125 (in #24).

5. Paraphrase the last 13 lines on p 138 and the top two on p 139. What is he trying to say?

6. Summarize the basic teaching in the whole of Book II of Die Welt.

 
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