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All the big o'l words in there. Decipher this please.
"His play’s a physical representation of Schopenhauer’s “Will and the Idea,” a conception of reality as but a perception upon which an indomitable will strives to stamp its imprint."
Seriously Chris; great stuff.
@DougHeil @Chris Parker
He's referring to the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and his most important philosophical work The World as Will and Representation in which Schopenhauer augmented the earlier proposition of Immanuel Kant (namely, that objects exist as things-in-themselves) by stating that the human mind imprints upon the framework of things-in-themselves the details of reality.
In other words, human perception and action is as much responsible for the truth of reality as the objects are themselves. Not to add words to Parker's well-constructed metaphor, but I would argue that LeBron's level of play is so proficient that he has moved beyond the mere act of mastering basketball and has moved into the realm of a Schopenhauerian "genius"... that is, somebody who no longer simply views reality based on his own perceptions, but instead can imprint his own will onto the framework of reality itself, thereby viewing and changing the actual Platonic basketball "form" itself.
Or, to put it simply... Ever see the movie "The Matrix"? LeBron has moved from simply being "Neo" to becoming "The One" of the "Basketball Matrix".
Make sense?
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