The article is an attempt to recollect the sense of the antimony between the necessary determination of human fate by the worldly events (which are but objectivizations of the will understood as the thing in itself) and the chance of human freedom, no matter how partial it could be, which could be gained by compassion, renouncement and asceticism. Kant solved the antinomy separating the world of inanimate nature dependent on the laws of mechanical determinism, and the world of animate nature, stimulated by the spontaneity of freedom. Schopenhauer, who finally did not accept this division, suggested another solution of the problem; the aim of the present paper is to sketch his stand on the problem.
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