




                        The World As Will And Idea

                                    By

                           Arthur Schopenhauer

                      Translated From The German By

                           R. B. Haldane, M.A.

                                   And

                              J. Kemp, M.A.

                                 Vol. II.

Containing the Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy, and the Supplements to
             the First and Part of the Second Book of Vol. I.

         "Paucis natus est, qui populum aetatis suae cogitat."--SEN.

                              Sixth Edition

                                  London

                    Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co.

                                   1909





CONTENTS


Appendix: Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy.
Supplements to the First Book.
   First Half. The Doctrine Of The Idea Of Perception. (To § 1-7 of the
   First Volume.)
      Chapter I. The Standpoint of Idealism.
      Chapter II. The Doctrine of Perception or Knowledge Of The
      Understanding.
      Chapter III. On The Senses.
      Chapter IV. On Knowledge _A Priori_.
   Second Half. The Doctrine of the Abstract Idea, or Thinking.
      Chapter V. On The Irrational Intellect.
      Chapter VI. On The Doctrine of Abstract or Rational Knowledge.
      Chapter VII. On The Relation of the Concrete Knowledge of Perception
      to Abstract Knowledge.
      Chapter VIII. On The Theory Of The Ludicrous.
      Chapter IX. On Logic In General.
      Chapter X. On The Syllogism.
      Chapter XI. On Rhetoric.
      Chapter XII. On The Doctrine Of Science.
      Chapter XIII. On The Methods Of Mathematics.
      Chapter XIV. On The Association Of Ideas.
      Chapter XV. On The Essential Imperfections Of The Intellect.
      Chapter XVI. On The Practical Use Of Reason And On Stoicism.
      Chapter XVII. On Man's Need Of Metaphysics.
Supplements to the Second Book.
   Chapter XVIII. On The Possibility Of Knowing The Thing In Itself.
   Chapter XIX. On The Primacy Of The Will In Self-Consciousness.
   Chapter XX. Objectification Of The Will In The Animal Organism.
   Note On What Has Been Said About Bichat.
Footnotes






APPENDIX: CRITICISM OF THE KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY.


    C'est le privilege du vrai genie, et surtout du genie qui ouvre
                une carriere,
    de faire impunement de grandes fautes.--_Voltaire._


It is much easier to point out the faults and errors in the work of a
great mind than to give a distinct and full exposition of its value. For
the faults are particular and finite, and can therefore be fully
comprehended; while, on the contrary, the very stamp which genius
impresses upon its works is that their excellence is unfathomable and
inexhaustible. Therefore they do not grow old, but become the instructor
of many succeeding centuries. The perfected masterpiece of a truly great
mind will always produce a deep and powerful effect upon the whole human
race, so much so that it is impossible to calculate to what distant
centuries and lands its enlightening influence may extend. This is always
the case; for however cultivated and rich the age may be in which such a
masterpiece appears, genius always rises like a palm-tree above the soil
in which it is rooted.

But a deep-reaching and widespread effect of this kind cannot take place
suddenly, because of the great difference between the genius and ordinary
men. The knowledge which that one man in one lifetime drew directly from
life and the world, won and presented to others as won and arranged,
cannot yet at once become the possession of mankind; for mankind has not
so much power to receive as the genius has power to give. But even after a
successful battle with unworthy opponents, who at its very birth contest
the life of what is immortal and desire to nip in the bud the salvation of
man (like the serpents in the cradle of Hercules), that knowledge must
then traverse the circuitous paths of innumerable false constructions and
distorted applications, must overcome the attempts to unite it with old
errors, and so live in conflict till a new and unprejudiced generation
grows up to meet it. Little by little, even in youth, this new generation
partially receives the contents of that spring through a thousand indirect
channels, gradually assimilates it, and so participates in the benefit
which was destined to flow to mankind from that great mind. So slowly does
the education of the human race, the weak yet refractory pupil of genius,
advance. Thus with Kant's teaching also; its full strength and importance
will only be revealed through time, when the spirit of the age, itself
gradually transformed and altered in the most important and essential
respects by the influence of that teaching, will afford convincing
evidence of the power of that giant mind. I have, however, no intention of
presumptuously anticipating the spirit of the age and assuming here the
thankless _role_ of Calchas and Cassandra. Only I must be allowed, in
accordance with what has