3 Appearance and Thing-in-Itself

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Notes on Text and Translation xvii
5. Abbreviations and Short Citations xix
6. Introduction 1
7. Part 1 The Manuscripts of the Years 1804–1811: From a Pietist Education to the Study of Philosophy
8. 1 Schopenhauer’s Early Understanding of the World: The Dualism between Temporality and Eternity 9
9. 2 Attending G. E. Schulze’s Lectures and Reading Plato, Schelling and Kant 34
10. Part 2 The Critical Confrontation with Fichte and Schelling (1811/12): From Initial Enthusiasm to Complete Rejection
11. 3 Appearance and Thing-in-Itself 69
12. 4 Will and World. The Will as ὄντως ὄν 96
13. 5 Fichte: Empirical Consciousness and Consciousness of Empirical Consciousness. The Philosophical Besonnenheit 112
14. 6 The “Transcendent Use of the Understanding”: The Illegitimacy of Fichte’s and Schelling’s Philosophies from the Perspective of Kantian Criticism 133
15. Part 3 A First Attempt at a Post-Kantian Metaphysics: The Theory of the “Better Consciousness”
16. 7 Schopenhauer’s Original Thought in the Manuscripts of 1812: The Project of a“True Criticism” and the Figure of the “Better Consciousness” 171
17. 8 The Theory of the Better Consciousness in the Manuscripts of 1813. A First Attempt at a System 213
18. Part 4 The Abandonment of the Theory of the Better Consciousness and the Origin of the Metaphysics of Will
19. 9 Will and Intelligible Character in the Dissertation of 1813: Between Fichte’s System der Sittenlehre and Schelling’s Freiheitsschrift 277
20. 10 The Manuscripts of 1814: The Development of the Doctrine of Intelligible Character. The Prodromes of the Metaphysics of Will 330
21. 11 The Study of Oupnekhat and the Elaboration of the Concept of a Universal “Will-To-Life”. The Abandonment of the Theory of the Better Consciousness and the Birth of the System 375
22. 12 From the Early Manuscripts to The World as Will and Representation. Origin and Meaning of the Aporias in Schopenhauer’s Mature System 436
23. Bibliography of Works Cited 517
24. Index 541