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For Schopenhauer (and Thomas Hobbes as well) the world was naturally in disharmony. Human society would escape from natural chaos only by the imposition of strong order, otherwise, as that quintessentially Hobbesian novel The Lord of the Flies, warns us, we return to savagery, from which we are only separated by a hairs breadth.be broken if free will were allowed full play, that is to say a society in which individual exercises his or her own powers without civil constraint, could only be maintained by strong rule, incorporated in the sovereign monarch (Hobbes) or legislator (Schopenhauer) who represents the supreme secular authority, namely the leviathan, the state.

But no individual who has sufficient self-respect to perceive himself as unique can accept total political submissiveness. The religions of the book preached acquiescence to Caesar, whose possible injustices would be rectified on Judgement Day. In our secular society, the probability of such a Judgement Day ever taking place is widely doubted, but phone number list the spirit of acquiescence is still strong. What we in the West are acquiescent to, is not so much a person or political party or creed, but the "tyranny of material facts". The individual has no other certainty than that of his own existence and not his existence as spirit but his existence as the classical body-spirit, the spirit having no life beyond the body. The slave was the animal in human form who was considered to have no spirit, the breath of eternal life, within them.

An essential element of the spiritual will to power was the conquest of time and space by the captured spirit. In the Western world today, the spirit is a product of the individual, limited to time and space. In religions which preach the submission of the will, (the very word Islam means "submission"), power and glory is not abandoned but conferred upon God or His representatives on earth. The tyranny of social facts is not accepted, indeed may be violently challenged, but the tyranny of divine facts is accepted, indeed that is the essence of religious faith that it be so. The alternative to asserting the will is submission to the power of facts, the successfully asserted will of something else.