@DRgenius21,
I have to hold with Schopenhaur, as I understand him having read but little; but he warned against individuation, and I believe especially in regard to the will... I trust that Nietzsche took will in a totally different light, thinking of art, music, and even crime as expressions of individual will... But that is individuation, while will, the thing in itself might better be thought of as our lives which we hold in common...Now each life is expressed individually, so, to an extent, is will as we know it... If an individual evolves an adaptation to an environment that gives him an edge, his will suddenly has a new expression, and it is will, in life and in its genetic expression, we recieve from our parents... They demonstrated their will to survive, and in bearing children, and we can do no better, so that when we pass on life we pass on will; but it is hardly, as a thing it itself, THE thing in itself for us, life, individual...We are social...Our forms are social, and our forms are more essential to our adaptation to every environment than our genes...Even a genetic adaptation needs the support of the community to survive... Does that make sense according to what you know???
