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On The Basis Of Morality
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Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
On The Basis Of Morality written by Arthur Schopenhauer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Philosophy categories.
Interest in Schopenhauer has increased noticeably in recent years. Published here is one of his key works, which has been out of print for a long time, in the form of Payne's definitive translation. This work is one of the most significant nineteenth century treatises on ethics. It is also Schopenhauer's most extended discussion of traditional themes in ethics and presents a descriptive ethics radically at odds with rationally based, prescriptive ethical theories. Schopenhauer begins this book with a wide-ranging critique of Kant's ethics, one that anticipates the work of contemporary critics of modern moral philosophy like that of G E M Anscombe, Philippa Foot, and Richard Taylor. Schopenhauer argues that compassion is the basis of morality, and in so doing presents a virtue ethics in which passion and desire are viewed as the keys for explaining different moral characters, behaviours, and world views. In the concluding part of his essay, Schopenhauer sketches his metaphysics of morals, using Kant's transcendental idealism as a ground for stressing both the interconnectiveness of being and the affinity of his ethics to Eastern thought.
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Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2019-08-15
On The Basis Of Morality written by Arthur Schopenhauer and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Philosophy categories.
This edition originally published by Berghahn Books. Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne’s definitive translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950). This edition includes an Introduction by David Cartwright, a translator’s preface, biographical note, selected bibliography, and an index. For convenient reference to passages in Kant's work discussed by Schopenhauer, Academy edition numbers have been added.
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Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19
The Basis Of Morality written by Arthur Schopenhauer and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with Fiction categories.
"On the Basis of Morality" (from 1840) is one of Arthur Schopenhauer's significant works in ethics. In this treatise, he argues that morality stems from compassion. He starts his work with criticism of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, which Schopenhauer considered the clearest explanation of Kant's foundation of ethics. He continues with a positive construction of his own ethical theory and concludes the book with a brief description of the metaphysical foundations of ethics.
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Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
language : en
Publisher: 谷月社
Release Date : 2015-11-23
The Basis Of Morality written by Arthur Schopenhauer and has been published by 谷月社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-23 with Philosophy categories.
"Why do philosophers differ so widely as to the first principles of Morals, but agree respecting the conclusions and duties which they deduce from those principles?" This is the question which was set as subject for a prize essay by the Royal Society of Holland at Harlem, 1810, and solved by J. C. F. Meister; and in comparison with the task before us, the inquiry presented no extraordinary difficulty. For:— (1) The present question of the Royal Society has to do with nothing less important than the objectively true basis of morals, and consequently of morality. It is an Academy, be it observed, which invites this inquiry; and hence, from its position, it has no practical purpose in view; it asks for no discourse inculcating the exercise of uprightness and virtue, with arguments based on evidence, of which the plausibility is dwelt on, and the sophistry evaded, as is done in popular manuals. Rather, as its aim is not practical, but only theoretical, it desires nothing but the purely philosophical, that is, the objective, undisguised, and naked exposition of the ultimate basis of all good moral conduct, independent of every positive law, of every improved assumption, and hence free from all groundwork, whether metaphysical or mythical. This, however, is a problem whose bristling difficulties are attested by the circumstance that all philosophers in every age and land have blunted their wits on it, and still more by the fact that all gods, oriental and occidental, actually derive their existence therefrom. Should therefore this opportunity serve to solve it, assuredly the Royal Society will not have expended its money amiss.
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Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
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Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-02-20
On The Basis Of Morality written by Arthur Schopenhauer and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-20 with Philosophy categories.
The nineteenth century produced many different systems of ethics. While Kant, Nietzsche, Mill, and Hegel all contributed greatly to ethical thought, the greatest contribution may have come from Arthur Schopenhauer. On the Basis of Morality is not only a beautifully written book; it's quite simply a very convincing (and humane) exposition on ethics. Schopenhauer's rightly hailed literary style is especially lucid here, and On the Basis of Morality is much more of an immediately digestible read as compared to The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer's elegant polemic against Kant's ethics of duty, i.e. the categorical imperative, is very effective. Schopenhauer deconstructs Kant's rational ethics with such prodding efficiency that it's amazing that Schopenhauer isn't mentioned more frequently as a corrective to Kant's ethical thought. Schopenhauer also makes it a point to mention that Kant's ethics rely heavily on theism, albeit in a clandestine way. Schopenhauer's ethical thought is atheistic to the core. The main thesis that Schopenhauer argues is that the basis of morality is compassion. In other words, the vast majority of so-called "moral" acts that we commit are in fact nothing of the sort. They are merely self-interested acts that we perform to either do what we are supposed to do, or because we will receive some sort of compensation. Shopenhauer's definition is quite different: only completely altruistic acts are moral. Another aspect of On the Basis of Morality that many find so appealing is that it mixes Kant's transcendental idealism with a Buddhist sense of compassion for all sentient beings. Schopenhauer appropriated Kant's idealism of the thing-in-itself, and he defines that as a blind will to live that permeates all things. Therefore, everything is interconnected via the Will. Schopenhauer reiterates that true morality is compassion for ALL living beings, not humans alone. Schopenhauer was very much ahead of his time in this respect. This is a great book by a great philosopher, and it deserves to be read.
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Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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Author : Schopenhauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-04-05
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Author : Annie Wood Besant
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2020-12-08
The Basis Of Morality written by Annie Wood Besant and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-08 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a philosophical description of what morality should be based on. Ms Besant looks at religion, intuition, evolution, mysticism and utility. It is easy to read and understand. In her time (1847 - 1933), Ms Besant was very forward-thinking, supporting ideas such as birth control, women's rights and atheism.
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Author : Schopenhauer Arthur
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
The Basis Of Morality written by Schopenhauer Arthur and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with History categories.
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