Abstract

Discusses Schopenhauer's claim that his idealism unites insights of Kant and Berkeley, and contrasts his position on the subject–object relation with that of Fichte. The question whether his idealism is solipsistic is raised. Schopenhauer's arguments that idealism is the only viable alternative to scepticism, and that the existence of a world of objects except for a representing subject is inconceivable are also critically analysed.