The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges has found in philosophy a way to ilustrate various metaphysical problems concerning the question of human existence. One of those is the problem of the time to which Borges is always returning. Both Schopenhauer and Borges admmit the present moment as the only real form of time, since then is when the objectification of the will happens. In works such as the Zahir and Keats Ode to Nightingale, Borges shows the realization of Schopenhauer's principle of will. It is this metaphysical principle, or a blind force that always desires life in order to ensure the existence of a species, to preserve eternal Ideas. Schopenhauer's philosophy has the characteristic of artistic contemplation, as it resists in the often forgotten notion of sensuality. Art becomes cognition, and the artist is a pure subject of cognition. Such an artist is Jorge Luis Borges, who believes that Schopenhauer has solved the riddle of our world. Therefore Borges becomes the pure embodiment of Schopenhauer's concept of genius
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