The Two Origins of Schopenhauer’s Pure Idealism Schopenhauer identifies Vedanta philosophy from India as a source for his inspiration. He reads Vyasa metaphysically for how matter and mind relate. That correction is embodied when he quotes Sir William Jones from his essay, “On the philosophy of the Asiatics,” to argue that metaphysical idealism consists: “not in denying…

Hegel’s argument for the world’s rational character continues what Immanuel Kant names transcendental philosophy. What is Transcendental in Kant? According to the American analytic philosopher Richard Schacht, what is transcendental in Kant is “what might be called the basic structures of the mind” (1975, p. 24). Those “structures of the mind” are the “basic” requirements…

Introducing a Series The unity of this study arranges a detailed perspective on three German philosophers: G.W. F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Assembled together, the continental philosophers confirm and contend with the historical and moral fault lines of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on the continent of Europe.

The arrangement of this study is the singularity of the body as a venue of health and disability for two philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze’s explanation for the health great writers is the contradictory relationship between personal life and health. …

Holly Tucker’s book titled Blood Work (2011) opens with the death of the first president of the United States. George Washington received four rounds of bloodletting when he fell ill. His life ended after the treatment intended to cure him. After the president passed, his family declined an offer by…

The Greek philosopher Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC) is studied today for founding a very influential philosophy for living well. He summarizes his ethical Stoicism in his letter to Menoeceus (Epicurus Reader, text 4, sections 10.121–135). Epicurus writes that living well requires: “one must practise the things which produce…

Selected from: Deleuze and Parnet, Dialogues II. pp.141–147. “War is certainly not a metaphor. Like Félix, we assume that the war-machine has a nature and origin quite different from that of the apparatus of the State. The war-machine would have its origin among the nomadic shepherds, against the imperial sedentary…

Directly from Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari (1989). Pages 61–63: “From the virtual to the actual: Individuation and the intensity That which effects the passage of the virtual into the actual is the intensity (or intensive quantity), whose essential activity is that of individuation. What Deleuze means by the intensity…