Senor Raul,M.Silenus and Mr.Ibra,
I have been thinking over one statement of Herr Kaspar which he made something back and went something like this-when Schopenhauer says that the intellect can nullify itself what does he really mean and how does it work out?
I have been reading Eastern philosophy of late and came across a philosopher by the name of Sankara and I think he may help to show what Schopenhauer might have been saying.
First a couple of points to keep things simple-
Schopenhauer claims that in a very few people ,intellect, which itself has its basis in Will ,can rebel against the Will and can deny itself. So, in a way, Will is turning against itself.
Now, the problem, as Herr Kaspar put it ,is that what are we to make of the idea which Schopenhauer puts forth that the Will denies itself.
In light of what I have read of Sankara, I think what Schopenhauer is saying is something like this- in a very few individual the intellect makes the processes and the systems of the world so crystal clear and an individual begins to "see" the "thing-in-self" instead of mere representations.For example,Senor Raul often uses the words "pretty women" and "some kind of suffering" in the same sentence.
What happens to a handful of people is that their intellect is helping them to see all the suffering which they shall bring forth ,by eternal laws, if they were to get entangled with a woman,for instance.But there is more.
Such men do not say that IF they do a particular thing, they will suffer.What they say is that ,no matter what they do,suffering,though perhaps in a modified form,will always be pervasive.
It is not that there is suffering in the world; the fact is that the world itself is made out of suffering and lamentations.
Now,let me come to the main point-it can easily be imagined that a man has become so certain about the real torture-chamber like nature of the world that he just does not care about anything anymore,such a man does not kill himself(too much of a bother).He merely gives up having food and water.
The empirical intellect denies the "empirical will"(body),that is, the manifestation of the Will (with a capital W).
In the eastern mythology,there is the idea of a god by the name of Vishnu who rests at the bottom of the ocean .The ocean is placid and the god is asleep. I guess it is some kind of a speculative metaphor as regards what might happen when the empirical will has been denied {due to the that fact that it (intellect) has turned against itself}.
https://ibb.co/XJtTNmfAs to what becomes of the Will(with a capital w.) that we can never know.
P.S.:You might have noticed the bubbles emanating from the god who is asleep,they might be the empirical manifestations of the Will and might arise when the Will ,for some unknown reason,becomes agitated.All the bubbles ,finally collapse, and are merged into the sleeping Will.
Regards