Logico wrote:


Forgive me if I'm wrong, but in reading Schopenhauer it seems to me that his work embodies the very idea of a philosophical system. That is, he himself has stated that his metaphysical position of the world as will and representation is all-encompassing, and is inexorably linked with his other ideas relating to ethics and aesthetics. For this reason he recommends in the beginning of his primary work The World as Will and Representation that anyone who wanted to commit to an honest reading and understanding of it that they read it at least a second time with the knowledge that, as I paraphrase, the latter parts are as much support to the earlier parts as the earlier to the latter. If I remember correctly without looking it up, I believe he even described his philosophy as reducible to a single idea; namely the world as this double-aspected will and representation, and from it all else follows. He also recommends a familiarity with his earlier works and the works of Kant, with emphasis on On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.

With this in mind I am somewhat confused as to how you define a philosophical system. As it seems to me that everything about Schopenhauer pointed to system building.