La explicación de los fenómenos paranormales en las filosofías de Arthur Schopenhauer y Eduard von Hartmann: Antecedentes, desarrollo y repercusiones

Abstract

The so-called “paranormal phenomena and the “world of spirits” were two significant subjects of study for some of the most important philosophers of the nineteenth century, coinciding with the growth of the spiritualist movement. This article analyzes the philosophical interpretations of these phenomena offered by Schopenhauer and E. von Hartmann, focused on the concept of Will as “thing itself” (interpretation which denies the existence of a separated “world of spirits”), and the explanation offered by the defenders of the spiritualism (Aksakov, Von Hellenbach, Du Prel), who identified the spirits of the deceased with Kant’s transcendental subject. Both lines of thinking will converge in the essay “On the Psychology & Pathology of the so-called Occult Phenomena” by C. G. Jung (1902).