Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics: The Key to Understanding How It Solves the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics

Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics: The Key to Understanding How It Solves the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics

by Bernardo Kastrup
Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics: The Key to Understanding How It Solves the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics

Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics: The Key to Understanding How It Solves the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics

by Bernardo Kastrup

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Overview

First proposed more than 200 years ago, Schopenhauer's extraordinarily prescient metaphysics if understood along the lines thoroughly elucidated and substantiated in this volume offers powerful answers not only to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, but also to modern philosophical dilemmas such as the hard problem of consciousness which plagues mainstream physicalism, and the subject combination problem which plagues constitutive panpsychism. This invaluable treasure of the Western philosophical canon has eluded us so far because Schopenhauer’s argument has been consistently misunderstood and misrepresented, even at the hands of presumed experts. Hoping to change this situation, Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics, offers a conceptual framework, a decoding key for unlocking the sense of Schopenhauer’s metaphysical contentions in a way that renders them mutually consistent. With this key in mind, even those who earlier dismissed Schopenhauer’s metaphysics should be able to return to it with fresh eyes and at last grasp its meaning. And for those as yet unacquainted with Schopenhauerian thought, this volume offers a succinct and accessible entry path.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789044263
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 08/01/2020
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 1,047,358
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Bernardo Kastrup has a Ph.D. in philosophy and another in computer engineering. He has been a scientist in some of the world's foremost scientific laboratories. His main interests are metaphysics and philosophy of mind.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Chapter 2 Brief overview of Schopenhauer's metaphysics 9

Chapter 3 Our portal to the world 14

Chapter 4 The world as it is in itself 18

Chapter 5 Phenomenal consciousness and meta-consciousness 24

Chapter 6 Meta-consciousness in Schopenhauer's metaphysics 29

Chapter 7 The will's strife for meta-consciousness 37

Chapter 8 Resolving the key seeming contradiction 42

Chapter 9 Schopenhauer and quantum mechanics 47

Chapter 10 Individuality and dissociation 59

Chapter 11 An overarching conceptual framework 72

Chapter 12 Tackling objections to Schopenhauer's metaphysics 81

Chapter 13 Platonic Ideas and excitations of the will 91

Chapter 14 The metaphysical meaning of life and suffering 103

Chapter 15 Concluding remarks 113

Notes 119

Bibliography 124

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