Category: Philosophy & Ethics
It is much easier to point out the faults and errors in the work of a great mind than to give a distinct and full exposition of its value. For the faults are particular and finite, and can therefore be fully comprehended; while, on the contrary, the very stamp which genius imp...
It is much easier to point out the faults and errors in the work of a great mind than to give a distinct and full exposition of its value. For the faults are particular and fini...
3. Chapter I. The Standpoint of Idealism.In boundless space countless shining spheres, about each of which, and illuminated by its light, there revolve a dozen or so of smaller ones, hot at the core and covered with a...
4. Chapter II. The Doctrine of Perception or Knowledge Of The Understanding.With all _transcendental_ ideality the objective world retains _empirical_ reality; the object is indeed not the thing in itself, but as an empirical object it is real. It is tr...
5. Chapter III. On The Senses.It is not the object of my writings to repeat what has been said by others, and therefore I only make here some special remarks of my own on the subject of the senses.
6. Chapter IV. On Knowledge _A Priori_.From the fact that we are able spontaneously to assign and determine the laws of relations in space without having recourse to experience, Plato concludes (_Meno_, p. 353, Bip.)...
7. Chapter V.(16) On The Irrational Intellect.It must be possible to arrive at a complete knowledge of the consciousness of the brutes, for we can construct it by abstracting certain properties of our own consciousness. On...
8. Chapter VI. On The Doctrine of Abstract or Rational Knowledge.The outward impression upon the senses, together with the mood which it alone awakens in us, vanishes with the presence of the thing. Therefore these two cannot of themselves co...
9. Chapter VII.(19) On The Relation of the Concrete Knowledge of PerceptionIt has been shown that conceptions derive their material from knowledge of perception, and therefore the entire structure of our world of thought rests upon the world of percept...
10. Chapter VIII.(20) On The Theory Of The Ludicrous.My theory of the ludicrous also depends upon the opposition explained in the preceding chapters between perceptible and abstract ideas, which I have brought into such marked pro...
11. Chapter IX.(21) On Logic In General.Logic, Dialectic, and Rhetoric go together, because they make up the whole of a _technic of reason_, and under this title they ought also to be taught—Logic as the technic of ou...
12. Chapter X. On The Syllogism.Although it is very hard to establish a new and correct view of a subject which for more than two thousand years has been handled by innumerable writers, and which, moreover, do...
13. Chapter XI.(22) On Rhetoric.Eloquence is the faculty of awakening in others our view of a thing, or our opinion about it, of kindling in them our feeling concerning it, and thus putting them in sympathy wi...
14. Chapter XII.(23) On The Doctrine Of Science.From the analysis of the different functions of our intellect given in the whole of the preceding chapters, it is clear that for a correct use of it, either in a theoretical or...
15. chapter ix.; only the latter are not used to establish propositions, butalways to overthrow them. The analytical method proceeds from the facts; the particular, to the principle or rule; the universal, or from the consequents to the reasons; the oth...
16. Chapter XIII.(25) On The Methods Of Mathematics.Euclid’s method of demonstration has brought forth from its own womb its most striking parody and caricature in the famous controversy on the theory of parallels, and the attemp...
17. Chapter XIV. On The Association Of Ideas.The presence of ideas and thoughts in our consciousness is as strictly subordinated to the principle of sufficient reason in its different forms as the movement of bodies to the...
18. Chapter XV. On The Essential Imperfections Of The Intellect.Our self-consciousness has not space but only time as its form, and therefore we do not think in three dimensions, as we perceive, but only in _one_, thus in a line, without bre...
19. Chapter XVI.(26) On The Practical Use Of Reason And On Stoicism.In the seventh chapter I have shown that, in the theoretical sphere, procedure based upon _conceptions_ suffices for mediocre achievements only, while great achievements, on the...
20. Chapter XVII.(27) On Man’s Need Of Metaphysics.With the exception of man, no being wonders at its own existence; but it is to them all so much a matter of course that they do not observe it. The wisdom of nature speaks out o...
21. Chapter XVIII.(29) On The Possibility Of Knowing The Thing In Itself.In 1836 I already published, under the title “_Ueber den Willen in der Natur_” (second ed., 1854; third ed., 1867), the most essential supplement to this book, which contains th...
22. Chapter XIX.(30) On The Primacy Of The Will In Self-Consciousness.The will, as the thing in itself, constitutes the inner, true, and indestructible nature of man; in itself, however, it is unconscious. For consciousness is conditioned by the i...
23. chapter 28, confirms the primacy of the will in self-consciousness.12. On the other hand, nothing proves more clearly the secondary, dependent, conditioned nature of the _intellect_ than its periodical intermittance. In deep sleep all knowing a...
24. Chapter XX.(34) Objectification Of The Will In The Animal Organism.By _objectification_ I understand the self-exhibition in the real corporeal world. However, this world itself, as was fully shown in the first book and its supplements, is throu...