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Félix Duque 
This paper aims to disclose the mythical roots of Schopenhauer's concept of matter, whose proof follows two ways: 1) an onto-a-theological argument, through the coincidence of matter's essence -actuosity- and existence -activity-, which is based on the the belief in the law of causality; and 2) an immediate awareness of my own body, and at once of the Will and of its mark: matter as the ground of man's characteristics. The identification of both of them should be sought in Schopenhauer's fright of death and his reverie of the Earth as a mater rerum (and accordingly, fear of technical progress). Matter would be so considered by him as a representative of a post-mortem state of immutable, unmingled light. The Schopenhauerian "technical' attacks on Kantian transcendental deduction are thus retrospectively explained as a wishful and imaginary omission of world's and man's time. A deceitful antidote against death, because it has beforehand death's flavour.
