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The imagination world is based on the will that Schopenhauer understands as a groundless urge. In these forms, therefore, the will determines all processes of organic and inorganic nature. It objectifies itself in the world of appearance as a will to live and procreate. This teaching of the “primacy of will” forms the central idea of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, it had far-reaching influence and justifies the topicality of Schopenhauer’s work. But the world is not only will, but also appears as an idea. It is the individual and linked appearance of the one will through space and time as well as causality, which form the a priori given cognition mode of us intellectual beings. “The world is my imagination” is the first principle of his philosophy. What seems to us as a world is only for us, not in itself. There is nothing observed for Schopenhauer without observer, no object without a subject. The world, viewed as imagination, disintegrates into subjects and objects that are both inseparable and radically different from each other, but ultimately both are only manifestations of will. According to Schopenhauer, this is the essence of the world, which, appearing in subject and object, looks at itself.