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>mfw scitards cannot into metaphysics

do you clowns even vorstellung?

>>7059963

I'm surprised this is such a big deal. Philosophers came to this conclusion hundreds of years ago purely through deduction. First cause and all that stuff.

>Time itself can have no beginning, for all beginnings are in time. Just so, space itself can have no limitations, for all limitations are inherently spatial.

Schopenhauer wrote fairly extensively on the subject of animal cognition. In his writings he attempted to lay down in concrete terms the difference between human cognition and animal cognition. This he did by separating the various faculties which appear in each.

In the first place, he identified sensibility. This is the capacity for an organism to feel stimulus and react thereto. It is essential to perception, but not (!) identical therewith. Humans share this faculty with all the animals.

He then identified the faculty known as Understanding. This is a most crucial faculty which, belonging to the intellect, translates the rough material of sensation into complex and intelligible mental pictures know as representations.

It is crucial to note again that sensation is not the same as intuitive perception, which is what the Understanding enables. In no way does a world extended in space, enduring in time and causally governed just walk into one's head. Definite laws must be applied to the coarse material furnished by the nerves and sensory organs in order to make their data intelligible as an external world full of objects and movement. From the mere sensation of different points on my hand being stimulated, I cannot form any notion that a rope is being drawn across it. Similarly, from the mere impression of light rays on my retina, I can no way reach the mental image of a table or a chair without the Understanding translating this impression for me.

We share Understanding with all the highly evolved animals that also boast a nervous centre or brain. As far as the world of appearances goes, many animals see as we do: some better (humans are trichromats, whereas many bird species are tetrachromats) some worse (many animals are colorblind and have poor visual acuity). Vision is however not the only way in which spatial relations can be grasped. Echolocation is an example of a completely different system which produces a mental 'image' of the outside world.

(cont)

>2014
>still believing neurological phenomena are the CAUSE of various mental states

do you people even double aspect theory?

>>4805419

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/controversy/chapter1.html

>2012
>Not being familiar with this volume

I seriously hope, etc.

>>4256266

"The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world “God” is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word “world.” It comes to the same thing whether you say “the world is God,” or “God is the world.”

>>3857560

Schopenhauer was one of those individuals who were simply from another world.

'On The Principle of Sufficient Reason' and 'On the Freedom of the Will' are among the greatest texts in the history of human thought.

"The chief objection that I have to Pantheism is that it signifies nothing. To call the world "God" is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word "world"."

>>3201831

Someone a 100 lifetimes smarter than you has already made the counter case.

"As a general rule, it may be said that a man's sociability stands very nearly in inverse ratio to his intellectual value."

"Though the world contains many things which are thoroughly bad, the worst thing in it is society."

"From long experience of men, we cease to expect much from them; we find that, on the whole, people do not gain by a nearer acquaintance; and that -- apart from a few rare and fortunate exceptions -- we have come across none but defective specimens of human nature which it is advisable to leave in peace. "

"Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. He prefers solitude more and more, and, in course of time, comes to see that, with few exceptions, the world offers no choice beyond solitude on one side and vulgarity on the other."

etc. etc.

"The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous — cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity. "

"All of the other people have committed crimes, the "Jews are the only ones who have boasted about committing them. They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race. "

--Voltaire

While all other religions endeavor to explain to the people by symbols the metaphysical significance of life, the religion of the Jews is entirely immanent and furnishes nothing but a mere war-cry in the struggle with other nations."

--Schopenhauer

>>2963917

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value. On the other hand, a philosophical mind is characterized by the way in which it thinks. With the impressive erudition of those great pundits, I sometimes say to myself: ‘Ah, how little they must have had to think about, to have been able to read so much!’