[The self is divided within itself], willing what it does not will and not willing what it wills. - Julius Bahnsen

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[The self is divided within itself], willing what it does not will and not willing what it wills.

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About Julius Bahnsen

(30 March 1830 – 7 December 1881) was a German philosopher. Bahnsen is usually considered the originator of characterology and a real-dialectical method of philosophical reflection which he laid down in his two-volume Contributions to Characterology (1867) and developed forth with his following works, amongst others his magnum opus The Contradiction in the Knowledge and Being of the World (1880/82).

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Alternative Names: Julius Friedrich August Bahnsen
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The conclusion of the Realdialektik is: 'It does not suffice' either for complete annihilation or for full satisfaction. The child of Gaia is born between heaven and hell, now ready to camp with the lightshunning creatures of the Chthonic darkness, now ready to flutter upwards to the heights of splendor.

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