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Reconstructing Schopenhauer's ethics : hope, compassion and animal welfare / Sandra Shapshay.
LIBRA B3149.E8 S53 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shapshay, Sandra, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 230 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shapshay, Sandra, 1969- author. Schopenhauer's ethics
- ISBN:
- 9780190906801
- 0190906804
- OCLC:
- 1061863927
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