Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics - A reading - Episode 4 - Is Materialism Untenable?
0In the context of Schopenhauer's metaphysics, can the will be known? Can the will be re-represented? What is the distinction between Perceptual Feelings and Endogenous Feelings and what is their relation to the intellect? Is there a kind of immediate experience which transcends the subject-object dichotomy?
How does further re-representation occur? Is Schopenhauer's characterization of the world-in-itself internally consistent? Do salient developments in Quantum Mechanics provide evidence for Schopenhauer's metaphysics, and more broadly for Pantheism?
Are the observers of light sources, even of stars, in quantum entanglement with the light source and each other, across space and time?! Is this kind of non-local interaction a kind of holistic unity on a universal scale? Are even non-local materialist interpretations of quantum physics, such as Bohmian Mechanics and Relational Quantum Mechanics, unable to hold water in light of the theoretical weaknesses and the evidence?
Is secular relativism lacking a frame of reference? Does it ultimately lead to solipsism and nihilism? But, is it perhaps, ironically, a path to spiritual awakening?