Abstract

In Germany and the whole history of Western philosophy, no one denies, Schopenhauer is an epoch-making character, that is, from the beginning of German philosophy he embarked on a non-rationalist empiricism road, but how and for his experience as a advocates, how to shift from the transcendent experience of the metaphysics of metaphysics, but few people make a more thorough evaluation. In view of this, this article on Schopenhauer's internal contradictions that his "superb" and "experience" and the swing of hesitation between the display and analysis, deliberately highlighting his potential and strong empirical trend. For him, not so much "will" simply is Plato's "philosophy" is Kant's "thing in itself", that is the will of the "beyond" or "transcendent", rather the contrary "concept" or "thing in itself" is "will" and "the will of life." It is through the "will" of Kant's "thing in itself," the replacement or full, Schopenhauer has opened up a new empirical directions