# The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860; Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount, 1856-1928 [Translator]; Kemp, J. (John) [Translator]

Genre: Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40868

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## Summary

If the _intellect_ were not of a subordinate nature, as the two preceding chapters show, then everything which takes place without it, _i.e._, without intervention of the idea, such as reproduction, the development and maintenance of the organism, the healing of wounds, the restoration or vicarious supplementing of mutilated parts, the salutary crisis in diseases, the works of the mechanical skill of animals, and the performances of instinct would not be done so infinitely better and more perfectly than what takes place with the assistance of intellect, all conscious and intentional achievements of men, which compared with the former are mere bungling. In general _nature_ signifies that w...

## Chapters

- [Chapter XLI.(27) On Death And Its Relation To The Indestructibility Of Our](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter XLIV. The Metaphysics Of The Love Of The Sexes.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter XLVIII.(44) On The Doctrine Of The Denial Of The Will To Live.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/34/index.md)
- [Chapter XXXI.(11) On Genius.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter XXII.(1) Objective View of the Intellect.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter XXXVII.(21) On The Æsthetics Of Poetry.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter XLVI.(41) On The Vanity And Suffering Of Life.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/32/index.md)
- [chapter I have merely indicated the account which our system of thought](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter XLVII.(43) On Ethics.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/33/index.md)
- [Chapter XXIV. On Matter.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter XXXIX.(25) On The Metaphysics Of Music.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter XXVIII.(6) Characterisation Of The Will To Live.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/11/index.md)
- [ii. 78;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/51/index.md)
- [Chapter XXV. Transcendent Considerations Concerning The Will As Thing In](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter XXX.(10) On The Pure Subject Of Knowledge.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/13/index.md)
- [chapter 22) are so just as much through the qualities of their character,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter XXXV.(19) On The Æsthetics Of Architecture.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter XXXVIII.(23) On History.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/21/index.md)
- [iii. 59;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/48/index.md)
- [Chapter XLII. The Life Of The Species.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter XXVII. On Instinct And Mechanical Tendency.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter L. Epiphilosophy.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/37/index.md)
- [ii. 377;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/49/index.md)
- [chapter 43, that the character, _i.e._, the will, is inherited from the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter XXIII.(3)On The Objectification Of The Will In Unconscious Nature.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/4/index.md)
- [volume I have fully explained the relation between cause, force of nature,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter XLIX. The Way Of Salvation.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/36/index.md)
- [ii. 258;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/47/index.md)
- [Chapter XXXVI.(20) Isolated Remarks On The Æsthetics Of The Plastic And](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter XLIII. On Heredity.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter XXXIV.(18) On The Inner Nature Of Art.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter XLV.(40) On The Assertion Of The Will To Live.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter XXXII.(14) On Madness.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter XXIX.(9) On The Knowledge Of The Ideas.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter XXI. Retrospect and More General View.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/41/index.md)
- [Chapter XXXIII.(17) Isolated Remarks On Natural Beauty.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/16/index.md)
- [ii. 258;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/46/index.md)
- [Chapter II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/39/index.md)
- [Chapter V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/42/index.md)
- [book I have assumed it with regard to the work “On the Will in Nature.” In](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/45/index.md)
- [xvi. 19) of the rich man and Lazarus given, which nowhere mentions any](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/35/index.md)
- [Chapter I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/38/index.md)
- [Chapter VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/43/index.md)
- [Chapter III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/40/index.md)
- [Chapter VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/44/index.md)
- [Chapter XL. Preface.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter XXVI.(4) On Teleology.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/1/index.md)
- [i. 69, 70;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-3-of-3-40868/chapters/50/index.md)