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Adorno XIII 77
Schopenhauer/Idealism/SchopenhauerVsIdealism/Adorno(1): If ((s) according to Hegelian idealism) the reality is the mind and is ultimately legitimated by the absolute which it is itself, there is also the tendency in it, to confirm, to glorify the world as it is.
>World, >Absoluteness, >Reality, >Justification/Schopenhauer.
Doubts on the fact that this creative mind is the good principle, such doubts are altogether alien to the mainstream of idealist philosophy. They have only become apparent in a counter-position (...) in Schopenhauer. He has named the mind, which is depersonalized,...
Adorno XIII 78
...which, therefore, (...) should have nothing in common with the subjective consciousness of the individual human being; consequently, the will, wherein also the moment of his blindness is affected, and, if you want, his demons, as well as that moment of the original creation of the apersonal, in the absolute activity ((s) spontaneity) taking place, which was the mind in Fichte.
>Mind, >World/Schopenhauer, >Spontaneity, >Idealism.


1. Theodor W. Adorno Philosophische Terminologie Bd. 2 Frankfurt/M. 1974

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