Aguiar de Sousa, Luís2021-02-232021-02-2320192280-8566PURE: 28218140PURE UUID: 5fa4bb80-157c-4dfb-afe3-a738022a5ad9ORCID: /0000-0002-4128-4842/work/89320024http://hdl.handle.net/10362/112277DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0035 UIDB/00183/2020 UIDP/00183/2020In this paper, I focus on Schopenhauer’s account of agency. I propose a distinction between a narrow and a broader account. According to the former, Schopenhauer emphasizes the extent to which our actions are fully determined by our cognition of motives and our character, leaving only a negative role for freedom. The broader account, on the other hand, reveals a very different picture of Schopenhauer’s account of agency, one that is characterized by his emphasis not only on a positive sense of freedom but also on action as an expression of existential cognition and insight.25348495engSchopenhauerAgencyWillFreedomAffirmation and Negation of the WillExistentialismjournal articlehttp://www.ilpensare.net/il-pensare-n92019-il-mondo-come-volonta-e-rappresentazione-200-anni-dopo-temi-e-prospettive/