• This dissertation argues that Schopenhauer's conception of the will lays the foundation for a radical critique of the rationalist model of action advanced by Kant and the German Idealists. I provide an interpretation of Schopenhauer's conception of the will and demonstrate its significance by suggesting that current theories of action are implicitly committed to the same assumptions as the rationalist approach that Schopenhauer attacks. ;The dissertation takes on two principal tasks. First, it a…Read more