Timeline for What is the name of this view, that consciousness builds reality?
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| Nov 15, 2022 at 22:00 | comment | added | Wayfarer | 'The many live each in their own private world, while those who are awake have but one world in common' ~ Heraclitus, quoted in John Fowles 'The Aristos' | |
| Nov 14, 2022 at 20:43 | comment | added | Daniel Asimov | Regardless of what our minds have been "shaped by", our thoughts and feelings are not immediately available to others; only ourselves. I am sure that's what Hegel meant by saying our thoughts are "personal and private". | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 6:07 | comment | added | Wayfarer | "Vorstellung" is also often translated as "representation". And the resonance with Plato is not by any mean fortuitous. | |
| Oct 5, 2022 at 11:22 | comment | added | AnoE | ... and then the first paragraph is basically a version of the allegory of the cave. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave (while not referring to this one, Schoppenhauer acknowledges that this idea is by no means new but well established in philosophy, including Vedanta from India, and also taking no time to diss Kant for missing it :D ). | |
| Oct 5, 2022 at 11:21 | comment | added | AnoE | Oh my! I've never read Schoppenhauer "in the flesh", but have taken your impulse and looked up his first paragraph in German. I must say, even though a modern writer would probably be fired by their editor for the overuse of nouns and very little verbs, it's very readable. Also unfortunately, the translation you linked (understandably) uses the word "idea" where S. uses "Vorstellung", which I could imagine is very misleading for someone like OP who probably uses the everyday meaning of "idea". A more sane translation would probably be "perception", "conception" or "imagination". ... | |
| Oct 5, 2022 at 9:33 | vote | accept | DanielFBest | ||
| Oct 5, 2022 at 9:32 | comment | added | DanielFBest | I agree that the statement "inside something" is vague, but by the same rote, how else could it be put? 'Inside the body', or 'inside the brain' would not be appropriate, but 'inside something' gives us the tenacity to assert 'inside' rather than 'outside', which is the general orientation of the mind. Nevertheless, I think your conclusion is helpful; it's just nice knowing I'm not the only person to have had this thought. | |
| Oct 5, 2022 at 4:59 | history | answered | Wayfarer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |