Schopenhauer's Doctrine of the Thing-in-Itself And His Attempt to Relate It ...
Schopenhauer's Doctrine of the Thing-in-Itself And His Attempt to Relate It ...
Colvin, Stephen S. (Stephen Sheldon), 1869-1923
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^< We find accord- ingly that the collective elements of empirical perception lie in ourselves and that they do not contain that which might yield a sure application to anything totally different from us, a thing-in-itself."^ Hence we know of no world beyond that of our sensations, a world of appearance which leads us into manifold errors and is the source of all delusion.
The intellect *' comprehends simply relations of things and does not penetrate into their inner nature, into their proper being. It is accordingly a simple surface power, attaches itself to the outer side of things, and grasps simply species transitivasy not the true being of the same." (11-325).
It is not surprising that Schopenhauer does not long hold to this extreme position, since to have persisted in it would have necessitated the abandoning of all metaphysical in- quiry. We soon find him assuming the same standpoint as that which called forth h s criticism of Kant by discarding his first thesis: The world is my idea, and nothing more; and ignoring his change of view, holding to his second in- terpretation of his idealistic proposition, i.
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