ARTHURO SCHOPENHAUERIO SANTYKIS SU VAKARŲ METAFIZINĖS FILOSOFIJOS TRADICIJA
Schopenhauer's Attitude Towards Traditional Western Metaphysics

Summary/Abstract: This article is designed for the analysis of Schopenhauer's attitude towards Western metaphysics in general, and German philosophers, Kant Hegel and the Jena Romanticists in particular. The author suggests that the application of the auxiliary term "not classical philosophy" to the analysis of Schopenhauer's philosophy would allow an escape from unacceptable connotations intrinsic to the terms of rationalism and irrationalism. Consequently, the analysis would be transferred from the German philosophical tradition into a more universal level of inquiry. The article focuses attention on Schopenhauer's reaction against rationalistic metaphysics and on his attempts at establishing new and not classical principles of thinking. Schopenhauer is treated as one of the greatest Western thinkers, who not only dissociated themselves from the fundamental principles of classical philosophy but also fashioned not classical approaches to the main problems of philosophy, introduced an open metaphorical style of thinking, an empathy of being related to unique existential experience, coined new situational categories, and opened new and not classical problematic fields.

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