Man’s need for metaphysics from the question about the concept of experience in general

Abstract

The paper seeks to question the concept of phenomenon in its entirety or experience in general that are taken as equivalent concepts. From what Schopenhauer calls as philosophy’s method based on Plato and Kant, or so, the laws of specification and homogeneity applied to the intuitions and experience itself; it is developed the argument that the man’s need for metaphysics also can be understood as a consequence of rational activity and not only by a tragic consciousness, yielding what the philosopher considers as the differential activity of the human intellect compared to other animals. The essay develops predominantly by the readings of books I and II of The world as will and representation and teasing taken from readings of commentators of the author’s work

Keywords

• Necessidade metafísica
• Totalidade do fenômeno
• Experiência em geral