Can the principle of sufficient reason be applied to the whole universe?
Yes and no.
>>24700416Yes, necessarily.
>>24700416anybody care to reexplain to me the link between Schopenhauer's Will and the principle of sufficient reason ? Including the thing-in-itself
>>24700416If you can realize how big the universe is, I would say no? We just found something that's 300 trillion light years across
>>24700589 Schopenhauer posits that the Will is the fundamental, blind, and irrational force underlying all of reality. It is the thing-in-itself, the ultimate substrate of existenceThe PSR, on the other hand, asserts that everything has a reason or cause. If we consider the Will as the ground of all being, it could be seen as the ultimate sufficient reason for the existence of the world as we perceive it.They are completely different
