World as Will and Idea, Vol. 3 of 3
Author: first_name: Arthur
last_name: Schopenhauer
Language: English
Year: 1909

In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root of the reality we see around us is a Will that eternally, insatiably seeks to be satisfied.  Each human Subject observes the Objects around her from the perspective of that fundamental Will working within each person.  The human observer is distracted by the details of life and individual distinctions that obscure this Will; only by penetrating this “principium individuationis” (which is enslaved by the cause-and-effect ty