The contradiction of the will with itself by Julius Bahnsen

• Grant number: 15/17315-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: August 24, 2015
• End date: October 23, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Ethics
• Principal Investigator: Flamarion Caldeira Ramos
• Grantee: Flamarion Caldeira Ramos
• Host Investigator: Domenico M. Fazio
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Università del Salento, Italy

Abstract

This research aims at analysing and debating the thought of german philosopher Julius Bahnsen (1830-1881), whose theory is an attempt at reconciling Schopenhauer's theory of the will with Hegel's dialectics, a kind of "real dialectics" (Realdialektik) and absolute pessimism. It focuses on the concept of contradiction of the will with itself and is based on a study of the works "The Contradictions in Our Knowledge and in the Essence of the World" (1880) and "The Tragic as the Law of the World and Humor as the Esthetic Form of Metaphysics," (1877).