Publisher's Synopsis
I want to highlight the thread that connects the concept of will since the 4th century BC, thanks to the development of the thought of the classical Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, to the teaching of the Gospels, in particular that of Luke, then to Seneca, representative of the Stoic philosophers; considering the development of Buddhism, of Confucianism.I then show how the concept of will is connected to the age of reason and Kant, Rousseau, the French revolution and the expression of the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and then how the will is studied in the period of romanticism and Shopenhauer until the modernity of Nietzsche, with his concept of the will to power, his influence on Freud and Jung and the new field of psychoanalysis in the twentieth century. I deepen the concept of reflection, again according to different philosophies, the Greek Sophists in the 5th and 6th century B.C., Buddhism and its teaching centered on reflection in the 6th century B.C. and the expansion created by the Mahayana from the 1st century B.C. towards North India, China and Japan. Goodwill together with reflection are the basis of the Golden Age.