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
>>24700648Upon reading the article on Schopenhauer of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, it seems like the relationships between the PSR and the Will is much more important then what you describe, see pic related (an extract of https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/#4) and in particular the paragraph below : "Will’s indirect objectifications appear when our minds continue to apply the principle of sufficient reason beyond its general root such as to introduce the forms of time, space and causality, not to mention logic, mathematics, geometry and moral reasoning. When Will is objectified at this level of determination, the world of everyday life emerges, whose objects are, in effect, kaleidoscopically multiplied manifestations of the Platonic forms, endlessly dispersed throughout space and time. "
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