Editing Thing-in-itself (section)

===Schopenhauer===

In his "[[Critique of the Kantian Philosophy]]" appended to ''[[The World as Will and Representation]]'' (1818), [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] agreed with the critics that the manner in which Kant had introduced the thing-in-itself was inadmissible, but he considered that Kant was right to assert its existence and praised the distinction between thing-in-itself and appearance as Kant's greatest merit.<ref name=":0" /> As he wrote in volume 1 of his ''[[Parerga and Paralipomena]]'', "Fragments of the History of Philosophy," §13:

{{Blockquote|Kant was guided by the truth<!--typo here--> certainly felt that there lies behind every phenomenon a being-in-itself whence such phenomenon obtains its existence ... But he undertook to derive this from the given representation itself by the addition of its laws that are known to us ''a priori.'' Yet just because these are ''a priori'', they cannot lead to something independent of, and different from, the phenomenon or representation; and so for this purpose we have to pursue an entirely different course. The inconsistencies in which Kant was involved through the faulty course taken by him in this respect were demonstrated to him by G. E. Schultze who in his ponderous and diffuse manner expounded the matter first anonymously in his ''Aenesidemus'' ... and then in his ''Kritik der theoretischen Philosophie.''<ref>''Parerga and Paralipomena,'' Vol. 1 (1851). Translated by E. F. J. Payne (Oxford, 1974), p. 89-90</ref>}}