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  • central conceptualizations of humanism
    • Encyclopædia Britannica: first edition, map of Europe
      In history of Europe: Renaissance thought

      …not in the exercise of will to shape destiny but in the use of reason to contemplate and perhaps to tolerate fate. In taking a new, hard look at the human condition, Guicciardini represents the decline of humanist optimism.

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  • Rank’s interpretation of personality
    • In Otto Rank

      …developed a concept of the will as the guiding force in personality development. The will could be a positive force for controlling and using a person’s instinctual drives, which were seen by Freud as the motivating factors in human behaviour. Thus, in Rank’s view, resistance by a patient during psychoanalysis…

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  • Schopenhauer
    • Arthur Schopenhauer
      In Arthur Schopenhauer

      …a metaphysical doctrine of the will in immediate reaction against Hegelian idealism. His writings influenced later existential philosophy and Freudian psychology.

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    • David Hume
      In continental philosophy: Schopenhauer

      …idealism was the “philosophy of will” developed by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860). Schopenhauer, too, felt that Hegel had prematurely proclaimed the finality of his own system, and, like Schelling, he believed that life’s most important truths defied comprehension by reason.

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    • Immanuel Kant
      In Kantianism: Early Kantianism: 1790–1835

      …Romanticist Arthur Schopenhauer, the “absolute Will.” In each case (excepting Schulze) the interpretation of the thing-in-itself in a realistic metaphysical sense was rejected in favour of various degrees of transcendental idealism. Removed from the main current of Kantianism was the empirically oriented thinker Jakob Friedrich Fries (the one figure in…

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Rousseau

  • Royce
    • In Josiah Royce

      …his emphasis on the human will. In his words, the highest good would be achieved by “the willing and practical and thoroughgoing devotion of a person to a cause.” Like the British Idealist F.H. Bradley, whose views resembled his own, Royce enhanced the reputation of European Idealists in his own…

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