Schopenhauer on Space, Time, Causality and Matter: A Physical Re-examination

Abstract

According to Schopenhauer, Kant's arguments about the transcendental ideality of space and time can be extended to matter through the concept of causality and the principle of sufficient reason. In this article, I examine to what extent space, time and causality can be considered a priori concepts in the light of classical and modern physics. The concepts of matter and field, and their possible a priori fundaments, as stated by Schopenhauer, are thus revisited in a modern context.