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Critique of the Kantian Philosophy

Overview

"Critique of the Kantian Philosophy" (German: "Kritik der Kantischen Philosophie") is a 143-page essay which Arthur Schopenhauer appended to the first volume of his The World as Will and Representation (1818). He wanted to show Immanuel Kant's errors so that Kant's merits would be appreciated and his achievements furthered.

At the time he wrote his criticism, Schopenhauer was acquainted only with the second (1787) edition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. When he later read the first (1781) edition, he said that many of the contradictions he had identified in the second edition had been absent from the first edition.

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1. They limit each other immediately; where the object begins the subject ends. The universality of this limitation is shown by the fact that the essential and hence universal forms of all objects, space, time, and causality, may, without knowledge of the object, be discovered and fully known from a consideration of the subject, _i.e._, in Kantian language, they lie _a priori_ in our consciousness. That he discovered…

   Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea

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2. Here, then, is the origin of that philosophical method which appeared immediately after Kant, and which is made up of clap-trap, of mystification, of imposture, of deception, and of throwing dust in the eyes. This era will be known one day in the History of Philosophy as "The Period of Dishonesty." For it was signalised by the disappearance of the characteristic of honesty, of searching after truth in common with…

   Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

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3. This much is certain, that whoever has once tasted Critique will be ever after disgusted with all dogmatical twaddle which he formerly put up with, because his reason must have something, and could find nothing better for its support. Critique stands in the same relation to the common metaphysics of the schools, as chemistry does to alchemy, or as astronomy to the astrology of the fortune-teller. I pledge myself…

   Immanuel Kant, Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

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Related ideas

• Empiricism
• Noumenon
• Principle of sufficient reason
• Greek language
• The World as Will and Representation
• Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant
• Intuition
• Idealism
• John Locke
• Judgement
• Transcendence (philosophy)
• Anaxagoras
• Immortality
• Sextus Empiricus
• Metaphysics
• Understanding
• Psychology
• Philosophy of religion
• Sense
• Knowledge
• Perception
• Abstraction
• Experience

Place in the tradition

Part of German philosophy.

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