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>>19793387
>Does Kant refute materialism?
Materialism had already been refuted by Plato, the only thing German idealists like Kant, Fichte, Schopenhauer and Hegel did was copy ihim. The only materialists that exist today are amateurs in philosophy who are too lazy to read a philosophy book.

>>19793581
Schopenhauer critiques materialism pretty well in the World as Will and Representation, following the critiques of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel, as "the philosophy of the subject that forgets to take account of itself when explaining its object." Which it's an attempt to explain everything in the world by means of the world's most primordial "stuff" or "things," considered as objective, meaning the fundamental matter is both self-subsisting non-mental, and does not get its matter-ness by being "relative" to a mind thinking it (as concepts, mental images, sensations etc. do). It precedes minds, minds are a subset of it and not the other way around.