For 10 points, the world consists of what concept and representation according to Arthur Schopenhauer's magnum opus?
In Eduard von Hartmann's metaphysics, this concept is the irrational pole of the Unconscious. Because architecture and landscaping represent low grades of this concept's objectification, another philosopher placed them at the bottom of the artistic hierarchy, while putting music at the top because it directly expresses this concept. With some qualifications, that philosopher usually identified this concept with the (*) Kantian thing-in-itself. That philosopher claimed that this concept was a "blind striving" that could only be transcended by compassion, artistic contemplation, and ascetic self-denial. Nietzsche's idea of a form of this concept directed towards power was inspired by an 1819 treatise partly titled for it that draws on the Upanishads. For 10 points, the world consists of what concept and representation according to Arthur Schopenhauer's magnum opus?
In Eduard von Hartmann's metaphysics, this concept is the irrational pole of the Unconscious.
will [or will-to-life; or will-to-power; or macht; do not accept or prompt on "free will"; prompt on the world or life; prompt on the thing-in-itself or ding an sich; prompt on related words like motive or striving]