On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) — Schopenhauer — John Shaqi
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition)
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(_Vorgestellt-werden_), if we annul it in its quality as an Object,
yet still wish to retain something, we can meet with nothing but _the
Subject_. Conversely, if we desire to abstract from the subjectivity of
the Subject, yet to have something over, the contrary takes place, and
this leads to Materialism.
[56] Compare Kant, "Krit. d. r. Vern." Elementarlehre. Abschnitt
ii. Schlüsse a. d. Begr. _b_ and _c_. 1st edition, pp. 33 and 34;
5th edition, p. 49. (Transl. M. Müller, p. 29, _b_ and _c_.)
[57] Kant, "Krit. d. r. V." Kritik des Vierten Paralogismus der
transcendentalen Psychologie, p. 369, 1st edition. (Engl. Transl.
by M. Müller, p. 320.)
[58] _Ibid._ 1st edition, pp. 374-375. Note. (Engl. Transl. p. 325.
Note.)
[59] Kant, "Krit. d. r. V." "Betrachtung über die Summe," &c., p.
383 of 1st edition. (Engl. Transl. p. 331.)
Spinoza, who never thoroughly sifted the matter, and never therefore
acquired a clear notion of it, nevertheless quite understood the
necessary correlation between Subject and Object as so essential, that
they are inconceivable without it; consequently he defined it as an
identity in the Substance (which alone exists) of that which knows,
with that which has extension.
OBSERVATION.--With reference to the chief argument of this
paragraph, I take the opportunity to remark that if, in the
course of this treatise, for the sake of brevity and in order
to be more easily understood, I at any time use the term _real
objects_, I mean by it nothing but the intuitive representations
that are united to form the complex of empirical reality, which
reality in itself always remains ideal.
§ 20. _Principle of Sufficient Reason of Becoming._