BRUNA ABAD SANTOS

Course
Master's degree
Research title
THE RECEPTION OF KANTIAN CRITICISM IN THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE OF SCHOPENHAUER.
Research abstract

We will face the following problems within the chosen works: (1) time and space as pure intuitions, which keep at the same time empirical reality and transcendental ideality in Kant; (2) according to conditions of possibility of the a priori synthetic judgments in Kant; (3) representation maintained the principle of sufficient reason in Schopenhauer and, consequently, (4) the necessary relationship between subject and object in Schopenhauer; (5) finally, time and space and causality as ways of knowing in Schopenhauer. From this, we face the following problem: how knowledge is possible in Schopenhauer from the statement that the forms of knowing (time, space and causality) are not intuitions and concern only abstract representations? Consequently, as a neo-Kantian philosophy bases knowledge simultaneously with the assumption of a rupture with the categories
Kantian interpretations of understanding, application of forms of knowing to another conceptual framework, and severe criticism of Kantian reason as merely instrumental and of time and space as pure intuitions? In short, how is knowledge possible in Schopenhauer?

Graduate Advisor
Isabel Coelho Fragelli