Historically, two things are important about Schopenhauer: his pessimism, and his doctrine that will is superior to knowledge. … More important than pessimism was the doctrine of the primacy of the will. … In one form or another, the doctrine that the will is paramount has been held by many modern philosophers, notably Nietzsche, Bergson, James, and Dewey.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the distinction between will and knowledge is the distinction between desiderative consciousness (a senser desiring) and the contents of cognitive consciousness (the projected ideas of a senser thinking).
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