Single Idea 21373

[catalogued under 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity]

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 Reference

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.