Banca de DEFESA: ARTHUR FERNANDES LOPES DE ANDRADE

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ARTHUR FERNANDES LOPES DE ANDRADE
DATE: 11/12/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: CCHLA, Auditório A
TITLE:

ON SCHOPENHAUER AND MATERIALISM: A STUDY IN THE LIGHT OF DEMARCATION OF IDEAL AND REAL

 

KEY WORDS:

Alfred Schmidt. Arthur Schopenhauer. Real and Ideal. Idealism. Materialism.

PAGES: 83
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUBÁREA: Metafísica
SUMMARY:

In 1970, a text was published and its relevance still remains until these days in researches that relates two seemingly incompatible themes of Schopenhauer’s doctrine. In this work, Alfred Schmidt defends a controversial thesis that associates these two topics, and titles it, in a very direct and suggestive way, “Schopenhauer und der materialismus”. In his text, Schmidt maintains a materialist perspective of Schopenhauer, apparently sticking to an image of him that is closely linked to his Kantian influence, because the way that Schopenhauer begins to treat the objective-materialist perspective since the publication of Über den Willen in der Natur in 1836, but effectively established with the release of the second edition of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, gives the interpreter the impression of a retreat from his subjective-idealistic perspective. After these publications, Alfred Schmidt understands that Arthur Schopenhauer would have made a remarkable movement in his philosophy, which, according to the interpreter, begins as idealistic but then establishes itself on materialistic ground. Starting from Schmidt’s argument, but placing it in the context of the need for complementarity raised from Schopenhauer’s doctrine, the purpose of this research is to discuss the relationship between Schopenhauer and materialism, elucidating the position taken by Schopenhauer since the first edition of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Schopenhauer’s philosophy is aware of not falling into dogmatic positions of its predecessors and contemporaries, and this posture is reaffirmed in his demarcation in the second edition of his magnum opus. Schopenhauer proposes his view of the world as representation encompassing subjective and objective, philosophy and science, idealism and materialism: each perspective complementing its counterpart and opposite.

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