Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics write by Sandra Shapshay. This book was released on 2019. Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 in direct tension with his resignationism and aims to show surprising continuities with Kant's ethics.
Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics
Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics write by Sandra Shapshay. This book was released on 2018-12-03. Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the apex of his influence, from about 1860 up to the start of World War I, Schopenhauer was known first and foremost as a philosopher of pessimism. Still today, his main reputation is as one of the few philosophers to have argued that it would have been better never to have been. Sandra Shapshay aims to complicate and challenge this predominant picture of Schopenhauer's ethical thought, arguing that while the pessimistic, resigned Schopenhauer represents one side of the thinker, there is another, more hopeful side that is equally important to his legacy and essential to fully understanding his philosophy. Schopenhauer's ethical thought contains a hopeful, progressive strand, and the main task of this book is to reconstruct it. The resulting position, which Shapshay terms "compassionate moral realism," offers a hybrid Kantian moral realist/sentimentalist theory and a Schopenhauerian value ontology of degrees of inherent value. The reconstruction is novel in three main ways. First, it views Schopenhauer as a more faithful Kantian than most commentators have been apt to recognize. Second, it sees Schopenhauer's philosophy as an evolving rather than static body of thought, especially with respect to the place of the Platonic Ideas in his system; Schopenhauer's views in the philosophy of nature changed as he encountered proto-Darwinian thought, and this change weakens Schopenhauer's own grounds for pessimism. A third novelty is the claim, concerning his ethical thought, that there are really two Schopenhauers rather than one: the "Knight of Despair" and the "Knight of Hope" distinction introduced in this book helps to capture the incompatibility between the resignationist and the compassionate moral realist sides of Schopenhauer's ethical thought.
Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality
Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality write by Gerard Mannion. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work challenges the textbook assessment of Schopenhauer as militant atheist and absolute pessimist. In examining Schopenhauer's grappling with religion, theology and Kant's moral philosophy, Mannion suggests we can actually discern a 'religious' humility in method in Schopenhauer's work, seen most clearly in his ethics of compassion and his doctrine of salvation. Given Schopenhauer’s opinion of religion as the ’metaphysics of the people’, his utilisation of and affinity with many religious ideas and doctrines, and the culmination of his philosophy in a doctrine of salvation that ends in the ’mystical’, Mannion suggests that Schopenhauer’s philosophy is an explanatory hypothesis which functionally resembles religious belief systems in many ways. Mannion further argues that Schopenhauer cannot claim to have gone any further than such religious systems in discerning the 'true' nature of ultimate reality, for he admits that they also end in the ’mystical’, beyond which we must remain silent. Indeed, Schopenhauer offers an interpretation, as opposed to outright rejection of religion and his system gains the coherence that it does through being parasitic upon religious thought itself. Given current debates between theologians and philosophers in relation to 'postmodernity' and 'postmodern thought', this book illustrates that Schopenhauer should be a key figure in such debates.
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics write by Arthur Schopenhauer. This book was released on 2010-05-13. The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines are here presented in more accessible, self-contained form than in his larger work, and in a new translation, introduced by Christopher Janaway, that preserves Schopenhauer's style in modern English.
The Basis of Morality
The Basis of Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Basis of Morality write by Arthur Schopenhauer. This book was released on 1903. The Basis of Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
