Morality from compassion / Ingmar Persson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Persson, Ingmar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Compassion--Philosophy.

Compassion.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii,145 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Schopenhauer saw compassion as the basis of morality. Ingmar Persson argues that compassion must be supplemented with attitudes like sympathy and benevolence, and that morality essentially involves a concern for justice which is independent of attitudes based on empathy.

Contents:

1: Schopenhauer on Compassion as the Basis of Morality

1.1 Morality Based on Compassion by an Empirical Method

1.2 Compassion and Other Moral Attitudes Based on Empathy

1.3 Moral versus Anti-Moral Attitudes

1.4 Justice-Based Attitudes

1.5 The Aim of This Book

2: Morality and the Distinction between Oneself and Others

2.1 An Ambiguity in Parfit's View

2.2 Well-Being Accessed from the Inside and the Outside

2.3 Reasons of Justice, and Coexisters

2.4 Schopenhauer on the Metaphysics of Compassion

3: The Partiality and Moral Importance of Empathy

3.1 Bloom and Prinz' Attack on the Moral Importance of Empathy

3.2 Spontaneous Empathy and Voluntary, Reflective Empathy

3.3 Further Objections to the Moral Importance of Empathy

3.4 Morality and Self-Renunciation

4: Biases in Favour of theNegative

4.1 Negativity Biases and Negatively Weighted Utilitarianism

4.2 Compassion as the Source of the Strict Negativity Bias

4.3 The Negativity Bias and Prioritarianism versus Egalitarianism

5: Demandingness as an Objection to Norms

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-266031-4

0-19-193775-4

0-19-266030-6

OCLC:

1273319205