the assessment of schopenhauer’s criticism of kant’s analysis of causality

arthur schopenhauer, in four aspects root of the principle of sufficient reason, criticized kant’s interpretation of causality, which is written in the second analogy contained in the section of principles of pure understanding. these criticisms express themselves along three main axes. by considering these criticisms, this article seeks to defend kant’s account and to show that schopenhauer didn’t understand properly the arguments that kant has given. in this article, on the one hand, kant’s position, in contrast with schopenhauer’s view, is confirmed, but on the other hand, it is argued that kant distorted the genuine meaning of causality and meant causality so that it was not consistent with the main aim that philosophers have taken at establishing causality, hence the criticism of this article of kant’s explanation of causality.