Will to life and unconsciousness in Schopenhauer's work

Abstract

This paper has as its aim to describe and explain the concepts of consciousness, unconsciousness (as a set of independent consciousness deliberation processes) and will to live in the work of Schopenhauer. To this end, we consider Schopenhauer's early texts in the manuscripts written concurrently with the production of his main work The World as Will and Representation and the way these notions play an important role in other works, such as On the Will in Nature and The World as Will and Representation II. We can see the fundamental importance, above all, of the unconscious, as an expression of the Will, in the general description of the reality of the world as appearance.