Schopenhauer’s Four Classes that comprise his Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason are diagrammed above. Becoming, Knowing, Being, and Willing are these classes. From Wikipedia: In his Translator’s Introduction to Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation, E. F. J. Payne concisely summarized the Fourfold Root. Our knowing consciousness…is divisible solely into subject … Continue reading Schopenhauer’s Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason