Single Idea 21361

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism]

Full Idea

Schopenhauer is not a realist about material things, but an idealist: that is, material things would not exist, for him, without the mind.

Gist of Idea

For Schopenhauer, material things would not exist without the mind

Source

report of Arthur Schopenhauer (Fourfold Root of Princ of Sufficient Reason [1813]) by Christopher Janaway - Schopenhauer 2 'Fourfold'

Book Reference

Janaway,Christopher: 'Schopenhauer' [OUP 2002], p.21


A Reaction

Janaway places his views as close to Kant's, but it is not clear that Kant would agree that no mind means no world. Did Schopenhauer believe in the noumenon?