Learning outcomes
The course explores a theme, a text or an author of particular importance for the history of philosophy from Kant to the present, through critical analysis of works, of methodological issues and of more meaningful interpretations.
Course contents
Schopenhauer’s criticism of the Kantian philosophy
The course aims to outline the relationship between Kant’s philosophy and Schopenhauer’s, with particular regard to the theory of knowledge. It will be highlighted the overall meaing that Schopenhauer attaches to the Kantian philosophy. Subsequently it will be examined the appendix to the World as Will and Representation, dedicated specifically to a "Critique of Kantian philosophy". Through the analysis of the objections to the Kantian theory of knowledge it will shed light on the psychologistic /physiologistic nature of Schopenhauer’s interpretation of Kant’s transcendentalism.
Reccomended or required readings
Text:
A. Schopenhauer, Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione¸ a cura di S. Giametta, 2 voll., Rizzoli, Milano 2002.
or
A. Schopenhauer, Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione, a cura di A. Vigliani, Mondadori, Milano 1989.
b) Letteratura critica
Bibliography::
E. Cassirer, Storia della filosofia moderna, Mondadori, Milano 1968, vol. 3, pp. 514-557 [the chapter on Schopenhauer]
L. Ceppa, Schopenhauer diseducatore, Marietti, Casale Monferrato 1983
G. Invernizzi, Invito al pensiero di Schopenhauer, Mursia, Milano 2011
Ch. Janaway, Self and World in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy, Oxford/New York 1999
M. Kelly, Kant's Philosophy als rectificed by Schopenhauer, London 1909 [archive.org]
Other references will be given during the course
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