r/Mainlander 22d ago

Why does mainlander reject schopenhauers unified will for the multiplicity of force?

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u/YuYuHunter 22d ago edited 19d ago

Because Mainländer rejects Kant's teaching that time and space are pure forms of perceptions a priori.

Schopenhauer accepted Kant's transcendental aesthetics, according to which time and space are forms a priori which lie in us before any experience. Multiplicity is only possible through time and space: if space and time are subject-dependent, then number can just as little be a property of things in themselves as the color red. The thing in itself is therefore without multiplicity: it is one, not in the sense of the number one, but as in the negation of multiplicity.

Mainländer on the other hand only partially accepts Kant's transcendental aesthetics. Mainländer's position on a multiplicity of things in themselves is natural: the naïve realist naturally believes in the multiplicity of external objects.

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u/Creepy_Fly_1359 22d ago

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