PHIL 1000H Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Transcendental Idealism, Christian Mortalism, Arthur Schopenhauer
12 Apr 2019
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Hume is a skeptic never takes it back. There is no way for us to give up the idea that there is an external world, or expecting that the sun will come up tomorrow. Nature will not let you give them up. Schopenhauer: not impressed by most philosophers, dazzled by kant"s achievement, once you understand kant it is like undergoing some kind of religious conversion. Intellectual rebirth, you see the world in a different way. If the world is independent, farther than we can think, how do we know anything at all: p1. In order to understand knowledge, the mind is fundamentally active. We can have knowledge only because that world is partly created by our minds. Our minds are part of the basic principles. This means that the world is mind dependent. Since we can only know reality as it is filtered through the structure of our minds, we can only know how things appear to us.
