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Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will”

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Problem With Kant

Schopenhauer is against reducing the experience of red to a certain frequency of light. We can't derive from brain activity by itself what representations would be, he says. He seems to be implying there's a problem with Kant in that Kant is giving you the general form of things. But why this particular history of the world? Why these particular events? The will provides us with the particular content.

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