ABSTRACT
This chapter, provides evidence from unprejudiced empiricists for principal point of my doctrine, the author Arthur Schopenhauer only have a few supplements to add here to what was said there, which are therefore strung together somewhat fragmentarily. In inorganic nature, will objectifies itself in the first instance in general forces, and only by means of these in the phenomena of individual things, brought about by causes. Arthur Schopenhauer sufficiently explained the relation between cause, natural force, and will as thing in itself. It can be seen from this that metaphysics never interrupts the course of physics, but rather only picks up the thread where physics has left it, namely with the original forces where all causal explanation has its boundary. As paradoxical as it may still appear to many, that the will in itself is something incognizant, even the scholastics in fact already in some way recognized and saw this; for, thoroughly versed in their philosophy, Jul.
