If the thing in itself is the noumenal and Will is not it, but rather merely "close to it", then is Will phenomenal? Obviously it cannot be part of th...
Nonsense, for Kant the thing in itself is recognized as being logically necessary. He says that for there to be representation it follows logically th...
Well, I would say that first we must ascertain exactly what his transcendental idealism consists in before we can discover whether it is threatened by...
This is so misconceived there seems to be little hope that addressing it will make any difference. Space and time are for Kant the 'pure forms of intu...
. Kant certainly does not treat the thing in itself "like an empirical state". Kant conceived it as a purely formal notion, not at all as something we...
If you want to avoid discussing the relationship between Kant's and Schopenhauer's conception of noumena and phenomena, which is very pertinent to the...
You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. Your failure to do it just makes it look like you cannot do it, though. You didn't read what I wro...
Did I say your statements "irked" me? I just can't see the point in making statements if you are not prepared to back them up, however cursorily. I am...
The first passage, as far as I can tell, basically just says that a person earns the right to own property by work. I'm pretty sure that idea was expo...
How is Kant "confused and muddled up" ? How does Schopenhauer "clarify and redeem Kant"? It's one thing to make such sweeping claims, but they are com...
I'm interested to know how Schopenhauer's philosophy may be thought as paradoxical. All I can think of is that his notion of noumenon or Will as blind...
This is nonsense because by the same argument people who thought the ether existed would have been affected by the existence of the ether, and so you ...
If you go back and read my post before last you will find my reasoning clearly laid out. If you find a fault with it then point it out, so we can disc...
You said that God affects believers and that therefore he exists. I say that the lack of God affects non-believers; and ask why this should not lead u...
No, it should read: "But, we can conceive ('perceive' is quite simply the wrong term here) what it is by analogy to other dimensions (and hence we can...
No, that's odd; I can control it. Perhaps that's too much information... but you made the erroneous claim... O:) Besides, to say that someone has a ha...
No it's really simple: some of our immediate perceptions tell us that parallel lines appear to converge, and in their broader, more inclusive, scope o...
If HE can come up with spoofy names for others then why should such names not be invented for himself and you? Saying you have read works and displayi...
I would say the "non-Euclideanness" as an ontological assertion, is coming from, for one example at least, the fact that we interpret some actual obse...
OK, but that still doesn't change the fact that you were conflating the truth that parallel lines are perceived to appear to converge due to perspecti...
Perception encompasses all the sensory modalities, including the somato-sensory and proprioception; it is not restricted to the merely visual, obvious...
What about Maggotsino and Shyster Eggfart? If you don't have a good understanding of Schopenhauer yourself how could you possibly tell whether others ...
This is nonsense. We know via perception that parallel lines never really meet. Think of railway lines; they never meet and it would be disastrous if ...
I should add that for Kant, at least (I cannot speak for Schopenhauer) time, space and the twelve categories apply only to the empirical world (the wo...
As I remember it his disagreement is with the notion of 'noumena' (plurality). For Schopenhauer it it should be understood as noumenon (singular=the W...
"Not putting on a display they shine forth Not justifying themselves, they are distinguished Not boasting, they receive recognition Not bragging, they...
Apparently inveterate fools are best completely ignored, especially if they seem to trollishly delight in trying to inflict their own stupidity and su...
Certainly that's true, but I would call these forms of investigation. Even animals investigate, how much more so do humans? I had thought we were spec...
That sounds right, but instead of saying it's "part of a person" I'd probably say that is the person, or the essence of the person, so it's not just '...
Not sure exactly how to parse this question. Individual psychology would be an expression of, but not the same thing as the spirit of a person, I gues...
Yes, I agree Perhaps 'creator' and 'creation' would be closer, but the nature of the expression is a mystery, not something analyzable. Just as it is ...
d) Take some gory photos of the smashed, previously stupid, dead child and retrieve the Hitler doll to sell it on eBay along with the photographs of t...
I'm not so familiar with Schopenhauer's works. I am very much more familiar with Kant, and I gather he is basically a Kantian, other than that he deni...
Causes are not observed as such, though. Don't we understand causes to involve energy exchanges which can never be directly observed but can only be i...
It seems to me that Nietzsche wants to equate the subject with actions. Like it is not the subject which acts but rather the subject which is the acti...
Yes, I also wonder what Nietzsche means in saying "people separate the lightning from its flash, and interpret the latter as a thing done, as the work...
If a world exists it is an actual world, not a possible world (although of course insofar as a world is actual it must be also possible). Something be...
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