The World as Idea - The Genius of Arthur Schopenhauer

First I must begin with the all encompassing conclusion that you, the "self", are the the vessel of truth. The body is the "primary object" through which we base all of our own truths. It is comprised of "pure sensibility". Which is to say that our consciousness is based from our sensory perceptions, "ideas" which our body recieves from the interaction with the world and which our brains convert into information that is stored for future reflection. The consciousness we experience every day is the "primary subject" through which all knowledge is perceived. It is that which knows all things but is known by none. It is not a part of space and time but always exists in the present. Although the "primary subject" is essentially your consciousness and this resides in the "primary object", your body and all of its sensory perceptions, all other matter in the world are merely objects for you to know and perceive. They are conditioned to the laws of objects, knowledge, space, and time. The truth that object cannot exist without subject, and vis a versa, has been proven in the aforementioned sentence. Each hold meaning and existence through and for each other. There are ideas which can be known without prior knowledge of any secondary objects. These are space, time, cause, and effect. As you are the first object you encounter in life and that all other objects are perceived through your space and time, causes and effects, these concepts are immediately known though perhaps subconsciously. It is because these are the base concepts of knowledge that perception or intuition must conform to them to exist. Experience is the combination of cause, effect, and personal motive. Thought is the basis of judgement. All perception is relative to the subject based on time, space, cause, effect and motive. Perception leads to experience which leads to judgement. All matter is based on cause and effect, which is to say that the true being of matter is its action. Only as action does matter fill space and time. The perception of matter is based on the action of matter on its immediate surroundings. This perception changes only if said matter's action changes upon interaction with an immediate material object. Matter is space and time but space and time are not necessarily matter, as they are ideas seperate from all objects and which comprise the perceptible existence of all objects. Causality unites space and time because causes and their effects always occur in specified space and time. Matter also unites space and time because matter is action or causality. Coexistence is established though matter. Through coexistence permanence and change are established, the permanence of matter and the changes of its states.

"All phenomena and conditions of things, might be coexistent in boundless space, without limiting each other, or might be successive in endless time without interfering with each other: ths a necessary relation of these phenomena to eachother, and a law which should regulate them accordng to such a relation, is by no means needful, would not, indeed, be applicable: it therefore follows that in the case of all coexistence in space and change in time, so long as each of these forms preserve for itself its condition and its course without any connection with the other. There can be no causation, and since causation constitues the essential nature of matter, there can be no matter. But the law of causation receives its meaning and necessity only from this, that the essence of change does not consist simply in the mere variation of things, but rather in the fact that at the same part of space there is now one thing and then another, and at one and the same point of time there is here one thing and there another: only this reciprocal limitation of space and time by each other gives meaning, and at the same time nessecity, to a law, according to which change must take place. What is determind by the law of causality is therefore not merely a succession of things in time, but this succession with reference to a definite space, and not merely existence of things in a particular place, but in this place at a different point of time." - Arthur Schopenhauer

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