Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer's Pessismism
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781138744271
Subjects: Philosophy; Schopenhauer, arthur, 1788-1860; Kant, immanuel, 1724-1804
Description: This book connects Schopenhauer's philosophy with transcendental idealism by exploring the distinctly Kantian roots of his pessimism. By clearly discerning four types of coming to knowledge, it demonstrates how Schopenhauer's epistemology can enlighten this connection with other areas of his philosophy. The individual chapters in this book discuss how these knowledge types-immediate or mediate, representational or non-representational-relate to Schopenhauer's metaphysics, ethics and action, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and asceticism. In each of these areas, a specific sense of pessimism serves to disarm a number of paradoxes and inconsistencies typically associated with Schopenhauer's philosophy. The book shows how Schopenhauer's claim that he is a true successor to Kant can be justified.