Yes, this is why I said earlier, that Schop seems to be a double-aspect theorist. Mind is the flip side of the material and vice versa. Some might call this idea neutral monism as well. — schopenhauer1
The Platonic Idea, through the Principle of Sufficient Reason is obscured by space, time, and causality and thus is the world of representation that we experience. — schopenhauer1
The result of Schopenhauer's discussion is to indicate that the inner nature of the world, or thing - in - itself, transcends the division between subject and object, along with the ceaseless transformation - like traveling along the surface of a Mobius strip - between subjective and objective standpoints inherent in the above antinomy. The inner nature of the world is the ground of the subject - object distinction itself, and is not accessible through proofs or assertions of necessary connection of any kind, whether the connections obtain between concepts, material objects, mathematical or geometrical entities, or personal spiritual entities. Schopenhauer consequently maintains that the thing - in - itself, is toto genere different from representations and the world of representations. If one is to gain access and it will not involve any forms of the principle of sufficient reason. Book II will describe how a direct, intuitive access to the thing - in- itself is instead possible. — Robert L. Wicks
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