Representing Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy Now
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Chopinin's Justification for Thinking the World
In the second volume of the world, and we're in representation, he speaks of objects as having two modes of existence. So any object within the empirical world has what he calls an objective mode of existence. That's the way it appears to us in perception. He thinks that that basic distinction applies to all things including human beings.
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