Reconstructing Schopenhauer's ethics : hope, compassion and animal welfare /

This book articulates and defends an interpretation of Schopenhauer's ethics as an original and credible contribution to the history of ethics. It presents Schopenhauer's ethics of compassion as in direct tension with his resignationism and aims to show surprising continuities with Kant�...

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Main Author: Shapshay, Sandra, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Summary:This book articulates and defends an interpretation of Schopenhauer's ethics as an original and credible contribution to the history of ethics. It presents Schopenhauer's ethics of compassion as in direct tension with his resignationism and aims to show surprising continuities with Kant's ethics.
Physical Description:xv, 230 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-220) and index.
ISBN:9780190906801
0190906804