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Full Idea
We apprehend the world purely objectively, only when we no longer know that we belong to it.
Gist of Idea
We become objective when we detach ourselves from the world
Source
Christopher Janaway (Schopenhauer [1994], II:368), quoted by Christopher Janaway - Schopenhauer 6 'Objectivity'
Book Ref
Janaway,Christopher: 'Schopenhauer' [OUP 2002], p.76
A Reaction
Since we are not actually detached from the world, that makes objective thought an act of imagination. And none the worse for that, I would say, since philosophers don't seem to understand the central epistemological importance of imagination.
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