Arthur Schopenhauer (extra credit)
Arthur Schopenhauer was a well-educated philosopher
that worked aggressively on a dissertation of The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reasoning. Within
his dissertation he describes what is real and what is rational. Schopenhauer
shared some similar views with the philosopher Immanuel Kant and often got his
inspiration from Kant himself, and his dissertation was no exception. On the
subject of “why is there something rather than nothing?” they both agreed that
most people could not rationalize this idea and Schopenhauer even went as far
as saying, “our knowledge is limited by our specific and narrowly circumscribed
capacities for organizing our field of sensation.” However Schopenhauer thought
that the best way for people to understand the principle of sufficient
reasoning was to explant it as something in need of explanation. Through this Schopenhauer
was able to determine that the root of the principle of sufficient reasoning reason
is the distinction between subject and object. Kant used a similar base to add
to his theory of knowledge and he also used a similar title, Critique of Pure Reasoning. Many say
that Schopenhauer was Kantian due to the similarities in each other’s works but
Schopenhauer often disagreed with Kant’s arguments. Schopenhauer often spent
time critiquing Kant and his hypotheses, he even stated, “The concept of
causality only supplies knowledge when it is applied within the fields of
possible experience, and not outside of it.” therefore denying Kant’s idea that
“the thing in-itself” exist. Even though Schopenhauer seemed to spend his time
and studies in “fixing” others problems, he did have wonderful ideas of his own
and great critiques of others that made many question what they had thought to
be true.
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