A morte, musa da filosofia

FINAL END OF LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL, NOT OF SPECIES, DEATH DOES NOT MEAN FOR SCHOPENHAUER THE END OF THE WILL AS ESSENCE, THAT IS, OF THE INDESTRUCTIBLE WILL-TO-LIVE. THE CONCEPTION OF DEATH AS “MUSE OF PHILOSOPHY”, AND OF PHILOSOPHY AS “PREPARATION TO DEATH”, IS RELATED TO THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ORGANISM AND ITS VITAL CYCLE IN SCHOPENHAUER’S THOUGHT. THIS WILL BE OUR STARTING POINT TO SHOW THE INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN HIS REFLECTIONS ON ETHICS, ABOVE ALL HIS REPROOF OF SUICIDE, AND HIS IMMANENT METAPHYSICS OF THE WILL AS WILL-TO-LIVE, UNCONTROLLABLE BY INDIVIDUAL CHOICE. SUCH A “PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE” SHOWS THEREBY ITS PRESUPPOSITION: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ANY EXTERNAL INSTANCE TO CONTROL THIS PRIMEVAL IMPULSE. ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL DEATH AND THE DENIAL OF THE ACTIVITY OF THE WILL.