Single Idea 21366

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science]

Full Idea

The task of metaphysics is not to pass over experience in which the world exists, but to understand it thoroughly, since inner and outer experience are certainly the principal source of all knowledge.

Gist of Idea

Metaphysics must understand the world thoroughly, as a principal source of knowledge

Source

Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Idea [1819], I 428), quoted by Christopher Janaway - Schopenhauer 3 'Will'

Book Reference

Janaway,Christopher: 'Schopenhauer' [OUP 2002], p.39


A Reaction

I wonder to what extent he meant ordinary experience, and to what extent he was advocating the study if science?