| 单词 | will to life |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswill to life will to life n. Philosophy the drive within a being to promote its own existence; a drive to produce and continue the species; the desire for life; = will to live n. [After German Wille zum Leben ( A. Schopenhauer Welt als Wille u. Vorstellung (1819) iv. 393; compare also the note at will to live n.). In quot. 1907 immediately after German Wille des Lebens (1886 in the passage translated), itself echoing Schopenhauer's use of Wille zum Leben.] ΚΠ 1907 H. Zimmern tr. F. Nietzsche Beyond Good & Evil ix. 226 ‘Exploitation’ does not belong to a depraved, or imperfect and primitive society: it belongs to the nature of the living being as a primary organic function; it is a consequence of the intrinsic Will to Power, which is precisely the Will to Life [Ger. der eben der Wille des Lebens ist]. 1952 Hudson Rev. 5 269 If Ubu Roi remains a burlesque and a happy trick, well, that's a tribute to the will to life in those left alive. 2005 D. Jacquette Philos. of Schopenhauer iv. 111 Schopenhauer's concept of the will to life is an expansion made for emphasis, a redundancy, in fact, for what he otherwise speaks of more economically as simply the individual empirical will or willing. < as lemmas |
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