Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics
The Key to Understanding How It Solves the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics

Having recently read Schopenhauer's magnum opus, I think Kastrup does an excellent job in summarizing, clarifying, and defending it. These tasks have been neglected, important and frankly, do not seem very difficult. This is b/c Schopenhauer's critics misinterpreted key aspects of his metaphysics, a......more

Now, this is a book that makes you want to read Schopenhauer! This book is a reaction to Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction by Christian Janaway, which I have also read. Janaway's book is very weird. He is very critical of Schopenhauer to the point of calling his metaphysics a failure! Very dism......more

Very interesting book about Schopenhauers metaphysics. Schopenhauer was a philosophical idealist, and it seems to me that Kastrup's interpretation of his philosophy is right. The book also shows the importance of clearly definining the words we use, especially when we discuss a phenomenon like consc......more

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This book helped me make sense of Schopenhauer's metaphysics, and to a lesser extent of German Idealism in general. Approaching Schopenhauer's philosophy through the lens of the hard problem of consciousness made things click for me, and clarified much of what that overall philosophical project was......more