جنبه هاي شناخت شناسانه و ايدياليستي فلسفه شوپنهاور

The Epistemological and Idealistic Aspects of Schopenhauerʹs philosophy

As far as Schopenhauerʹs philosophy sees the world as representation, and deals with the way of knowing and the relation between subject and object, it is consistent with the Kantʹs philosophy and epistemology. Both Schopenhauerʹs Dissertation and the first part of his famous work The Word as Will and Representation reflect the Kantian epistemology. Schopenhauer himself has admitted that his philosophy is based on the Kantʹs philosophy. In epistemology. he accepts the Kantʹs Copernician revolution. Even though the epistemology aspect of his philosophy (The world as representation) is based on the Kantʹs philosophy, But he never likes thoroughly to follow Kantʹs philosophy. Uniting the causality with the matter, reducing the twelve categories of understanding to one category, considering time, space and causality as the forms of the principle of sufficient reason, etc. are his innovative cases versus Kantian view. Then it can be said that, he intended to go beyond the Kantʹs philosophy. On the other hand, Schopenhauerʹs philosophy is idealistic. He considers the object as the representation of the subject. But the idealistic aspect of his philosophy is considered only in the structure of the world as representation rather as will. In other words, idealism contains only the phenomenal aspect of the world. This paper tries to illustrate the epistemological and idealistic status of Schopenhauerʹs philosophy from the perspective of Kantʹs theoretical philosophy.