Schopenhauers "hermeneutischer" Metaphysik- und Kritizismus-Begriff vor dem Hintergrund seiner Kant-Rezeption

In his mature writings, Schopenhauer was at pains both to account for positive metaphysical knowledge and to do justice to Kant's critique of reason. According to his concept of metaphysics that, in recent years, has come to be known as "hermeneutical," it does not (strive to) go beyond possible knowledge, but only to lay out an "immanent dogmatism," a (merely) coherent and verisimilar interpretation of the thing in itself as it reveals itself in the world as representation. The aim of this paper is to corroborate this "hermeneutical" account of Schopenhauer's view of metaphysics, or philosophy, by tracing it back to his early notes of 1811–12 and, in particular, to his notion of the "true criticism." As I will demonstrate, his interpretation of Kant's concept of metaphysics and the regulative usage of the ideas of reason played a major role in the development of that view.