Will negation#
Summary#
Nietzsche identifies the question of how negation of will is possible as the central problem that launched Schopenhauer’s philosophy. This question, closely tied to the phenomenon of the saint and the religious neurosis, asks how sudden transformation from worldly engagement to complete renunciation can occur. Nietzsche suggests that psychology has been wrecked at this point because it believed in moral oppositions rather than recognizing such transformations as perhaps merely errors of interpretation.