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This volume brings together internationally recognised Schopenhauer
scholars to develop new perspectives on his moral philosophy.
Despite anticipating and engaging with many of the arguments now
recognisable in Anglophone moral philosophy, Arthur Schopenhauer
has often been overlooked as a potential contributor to
contemporary discourse within this domain. Not only was he one of
the most important 19th-century critics of Kantian deontology,
Schopenhauer also developed a plausible moral system of his own
grounded in compassion. While interesting parallels can be drawn
between his system and the sentimentalist tradition familiar from
the likes of Hume and Hutcheson, Schopenhauer’s idiosyncratic
metaphysics provide a unique approach to standard questions in
moral psychology, the philosophy of action, axiology, and moral
epistemology. The chapters in this book draw out the relevance and
influence of Schopenhauer’s ethical program, attempting to
demonstrate the as yet untapped wealth of conceptual resources for
pressing moral problems. They address a wide range of topics,
including: the moral status of animals; the moral permissibility of
suicide; the possibility of altruistic action; the nature of virtue
and asceticism; how Schopenhauer integrated Western influences with
various Indian traditions of moral thinking, and more.
Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy will be of interest to scholars
and advanced students interested in Schopenhauer, 19th-century
philosophy, and the history of ethics.
This volume brings together internationally recognised Schopenhauer
scholars to develop new perspectives on his moral philosophy.
Despite anticipating and engaging with many of the arguments now
recognisable in Anglophone moral philosophy, Arthur Schopenhauer
has often been overlooked as a potential contributor to
contemporary discourse within this domain. Not only was he one of
the most important 19th-century critics of Kantian deontology,
Schopenhauer also developed a plausible moral system of his own
grounded in compassion. While interesting parallels can be drawn
between his system and the sentimentalist tradition familiar from
the likes of Hume and Hutcheson, Schopenhauer's idiosyncratic
metaphysics provide a unique approach to standard questions in
moral psychology, the philosophy of action, axiology, and moral
epistemology. The chapters in this book draw out the relevance and
influence of Schopenhauer's ethical program, attempting to
demonstrate the as yet untapped wealth of conceptual resources for
pressing moral problems. They address a wide range of topics,
including: the moral status of animals; the moral permissibility of
suicide; the possibility of altruistic action; the nature of virtue
and asceticism; how Schopenhauer integrated Western influences with
various Indian traditions of moral thinking, and more.
Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and
advanced students interested in Schopenhauer, 19th-century
philosophy, and the history of ethics.
On what grounds could life be made worth living, given its abundant
suffering? Friedrich Nietzsche was among many who attempted to
answer this question. While always seeking to resist pessimism,
Nietzsche's strategy for doing so, and the extent to which he was
willing to concede conceptual grounds to pessimists, shifted
dramatically over time. His reading of pessimists such as Eduard
von Hartmann, Olga Plümacher, and Julius Bahnsen—as well as
their critics, such as Eugen Dühring and James Sully—has been
under-explored in the secondary literature, isolating him from his
intellectual context. Patrick Hassan's book seeks to correct this.
After closely mapping Nietzsche's philosophical development on to
the relevant axiological and epistemological issues, it
disentangles his various critiques of pessimism, elucidating how
familiar Nietzschean themes (e.g. eternal recurrence, aesthetic
justification, will to power, and his critique of Christianity) can
and should be assessed against this philosophical backdrop.
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