Jan Kerkmann

Reinterpreting Schopenhauer’s Fourfold Root: Causality, Immanence, and the Limits of Metaphysical Explanation

Background: Arthur Schopenhauer’s On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (in its revised 1847 edition) has been variously interpreted as an epistemological prelude to his metaphysics of will, as a continuation of Kantian transcendental philosophy, or as an early expression of Schopenhauer’s broader...