§21-23: Schopenhauer's Criticisms of Kant

Patrick’s presentations outlined Schopenhauer’s two main criticisms of Kant. I didn’t understand one of them [ must read about this ], but the other, presented in §23, was convincing. Schopenhauer cites Kant’s looking at house vs watching boat going by the house, and argues, against him, that in both cases, the series of events is determined by the changes of relative position in two bodies. In a nutshell, Kant’s mistake is to neglect the embodied aspect of perception. There is no such thing as ‘mere apprehension’ in which my impressions change, yet nothing objective changes. Looking at the house involves objective changes in my perceiving body. I will write on both Schopenhauer’s criticisms of Kant at greater length sometime soon.