19th Century German Philosopher Schopenhauer orientates his work around Kant’s system. Schopenhauer accepts that there is a Phenomenal world, the world of Appearances. He also accepts a complete absence of the subjective experience of Appearance, the Thing-In-Itself, Noumena. This Kantian basis leads Schopenhauer into the following predicament. Plato, admired by Schopenhauer, sees attaining an understanding of this Noumena (similar to Plato’s Forms) the highest accomplishment. But Kant’s Noumena denies experience, which is the possibility for knowledge here. Schopenhauer’s concept of the Will is formed from these pressures. This talk will see Kant’s Noumena as Schopenhauer’s Will, with some Plato in there as well. But to do so will require an expounding of Kant and Schopenhauer’s systems.
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