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| 0:08.0 | Part 2, The World World as Representation. So our central focus for this series is going to be the world as will and representation. Schopenhauer's masterwork from which all of his other philosophy stems. The book's broken down into four parts. |
| 0:41.0 | The first looks as the world as representation, which is going to be our focus this week. |
| 0:47.1 | The second, Schopenhauer's most important idea, which is the fabric of the universe itself. |
| 0:49.1 | Then we'll get into his views on aesthetics. And finally, in the fourth section, Schopenhauer discusses what we need to do to achieve salvation. |
| 0:55.6 | We're going to be doing those in all the future sections. |
| 0:57.8 | As I said, in this week, we're going to focus on that first part. |
| 1:00.7 | The world as it seems, the world as it's represented to us, the types of knowledge we can have, |
| 1:06.6 | how we get that knowledge, and what grounds and justifies our knowledge. |
| 1:10.8 | You know, the kids are calling this epistemology, aren't they? |
| 1:13.1 | We're just going to call it knowledge. |
| 1:15.5 | So what knowledge do we get of the outside world and how do we know that knowledge is justified? |
| 1:21.8 | We need to go back in time to a bit of a manual camp maybe. |
| 1:24.4 | Is that a good place to start? |
| 1:25.4 | We said in our first episode, the biography is that when he was in Berlin, he studied two |
| 1:32.7 | very influential philosophers on his work, which were Plato and Kant. |
| 1:38.0 | And Kant in particular, although according to Schopenhauer, which is this is something that is |
| 1:41.9 | contentious, that he thought that they were actually touching upon very similar insights. But he focuses most of his philosophy around a Kantian idea, |
| 1:51.9 | which is that the way we see the world is actually not necessarily what the world is in itself. |
| 1:59.6 | And that actually our brains are doing a lot of work to make this world appear the way it does to us. How does Kant actually argue this? Well, if you try to read Kant himself, you might struggle with a lot of technical jargon. We're going to give the most simple account. Now, just quick point on this is that we're not going to be able to go into all the fine details. This is an episode on Schopenhauer. If you want to learn about all of Kant's ideas on epistemology, then don't go to any of our series. Because we're having fun here. Because we're, yeah, we haven't done Kant in that, in that detail. But here's the easy version of this. |
| 2:35.7 | So Kant says there are certain types of knowledge that we have, which he wants to be able to ask the question, really, how is this type of knowledge possible? |
| 2:45.5 | Using this term epistemology again. |
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