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

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"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 K...

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Main Author: Shapshay, Sandra, 1969- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Schopenhauer, Arthur, > 1788-1860.
Schopenhauer, Arthur, > 1788-1860
Ethics.
Ethics
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A tale of two Schopenhauers
  • Schopenhauer's pessimism in light of his evolving system
  • Freedom and morality
  • Compassionate moral realism
  • A role for reason in Schopenhauer's ethics.