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II:368
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p.76
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We become objective when we detach ourselves from the world
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Full Idea:
We apprehend the world purely objectively, only when we no longer know that we belong to it.
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From:
Christopher Janaway (Schopenhauer [1994], II:368), quoted by Christopher Janaway - Schopenhauer 6 'Objectivity'
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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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