Arthur Schopenhauer's masterwork arguing that the world is fundamentally will — blind, insatiable striving — and that salvation from suffering comes through aesthetic contemplation and ascetic denial.
Develops the two-aspect view (will/representation), the analysis of all life as suffering driven by will, the hierarchy of arts (music as purest expression of will), and the ascetic denial of will as highest wisdom.
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