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Note for a study of Schopenhauer's poetics:

In particular, of the pragmatic aspects of his philosophizing. In the early sections of the first book, Schopenhauer is fond of constructions like this: 'He who has recognized the form of the principle of sufficient reason, which appears in pure time as such, and on which all counting and calculating are based, has thereby also recognized the whole essence of time'. That is, the form, 'he who has recognized… has also recognized…'; he uses it twice in the first paragraph of §4 alone.

Could this mark any attention on his part toward the practical uptake of his thought by his readers? The first three sentences of §1 announce something that looks like a practical distinction between those who understand him, and those who don't:

'"The world is my representation": this is a truth valid with reference to every living and knowing being, although man alone can bring it into reflective, abstract consciousness. If he really does so, philosophical discernment has dawned on him. It then becomes clear and certain to him that he does not know a sun and an earth, but only an eye that sees a sun, a hand that feels an earth'.

See also in §1: 'Thus in this first book we consider the world only from the above-mentioned angle, only in so far as it is representation. The inner reluctance with which everyone accepts the world as as his mere representation warns him that this consideration, quite apart from its truth, is nevertheless one-sided, and so is occasioned by some arbitrary abstraction. On the other hand, he can never withdraw from the acceptance. However, the one-sidedness of this consideration will be made good in the following book through a truth that is not so immediately certain as that from which we start here. Only deeper investigation, more difficult abstraction, the separation of what is different, and the combination of what is identical can lead us to this truth. This truth, which must be very serious and grave if not terrible to everyone, is that a man also can say and must say: "The world is my will."'

Schopenhauer's Cartesian, idealist heritage might have something to do with the first insinuation there, that everyone cannot but help but believe such-and-such. But his way of stating it recalls Fichte on the vicissitudes of acceptance of idealism or materialism in the introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre, which might make for a more practical reading. The second half is more strongly suggestive of pragmatics; investigations involving difficulty and terror require acts of will.