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I've been fond of Kant ever since I first encountered him in university. Simply put, I admired the way he established ethics as a duty to treat every other man as an end in himself, and not merely as a means. I also admired the way he stated a universal command, known as the categorical imperative, or the moral law. It is a difficult ethics to follow, but I essentially understood his way of thinking. I did have one qualm about him, however. Even our philosophy professor noted that his ethics was...

My relationship with Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy has always been a little difficult. Imagine a long line with three circles. A circle on the left end of the line, a circle in the middle of the line and another circle in the right end of the line. Both circles on the ends of the line represent an extreme, one I respect and agree with and another one I disagree with and hardly respect, but nonetheless are circles with views I have actual opinions on, or rebuttals for Schopenhauer's acumen. Th...

Cet essai a été rejeté par la Société Royale Danoise, parce qu'il constituait une offense sérieuse à plusieurs philosophes, moi par contre j'ai eu beaucoup de plaisir a voir Schopenhauer faire l'attaque frontale à Hegel et à l'impératif catégorique de Kant et ça fâcheuse loi morale, je trouve que son raisonnement est logique, la compassion comme base de la morale, la pitié, l'égoïsme, c'est très réaliste tout ça, loin des moralistes théologiens qui se cachent derrière la philosophie pour prêcher...

A good work to read right after Kant's Groundwork.Worth reading just for Schopenhauer's random and unnecessary tirades against his far more popular contemporary Hegel: ". . . ultimately we have another who is quite unworthy even of these two, who as a man of talent is far inferior to them, namely, the clumsy and senseless charlatan Hegel"

Consistently, Schopenhauer is uncannily prescient and insightful. He is the most underrated philosopher in the western canon that I can think of. His views in The World as Will and Representation and this essay both demonstrate this. In this essay, Schopenhauer presents a number of arguments against Kant's ethics. Many of them are gems, and I wish Schopenhauer would elaborate on them in greater detail. These gems could make for entire research projects or books each, it seems. In this sense, rea...

Dans cet ouvrage, Schopenhauer répond à une question académique relative au fondement de la morale. Il s’agit toujours de traquer un principe unique au moyen puisse être caractérisé les mœurs pour échapper à l’embarras dans lequel nous jette la multiplicité des avis sur la question. La question avait été explorée par Kant dans un ouvrage précèdent, et la piste métaphysique semble inspirer nos philosophes allemands, car l’auteur lui rend un hommage appuyé pour lui avoir en quelque sorte ouvert la...

«انسان های وحشی یکدیگر را می خورند و انسان های متمدن ، یکدیگر را فریب میدهند.

Schopenhauer's lesser-known and under-rated attack on the widespread opinion that morality consists in a system of imperative commands. An important essay in its own right. Also anticipates more recent criticisms of the "morality system" made by figures such as Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Bernard Williams and Alasdair MacIntyre.

We don't hear much about Schopenhauer anymore (probably never did, now that I think about it) no doubt because he has been so overshadowed by his intellectual descendants, most notably Nietzsche and Marx, but I've been a big fan for years and have read The World as Will and Representation several times.What struck me about this little gem, besides it's 19th century quirkiness, is the affinity that the current investigation of justice called, loosely, "capability theory", promoted mainly by Marth...

Schopenhauer thinks that all human actions can be classified as either based on egoism (a desire to satisfy the self), malice ( a desire to work mischief on another) or , what is to him laudable and the only type of action that is truly moral, actions whose origin is the desire to do help others with no care for egoistic satisfaction. Based on this premise, I think Schopenhauer's system of morality is far more humane than is the Categorical Imperative of Kant or even an utilitarian system of mor...

Kant BTFO

In 1837, the Danish Royal Society of Scientific Studies came up with a contest. Philosophers had to write essays to answer the important question: wherein lies the basis of morality? There was only one contender, his name was Arthur Schopenhauer, and he lost the contest. Well, how is that possible?The Basis of Morality (published in 1840) is Arthur Schopenhauer's attempt to answer the above mentioned question. Schopenhauer accomplished mainly three goals: (1) offering an intensive critique of Ka...

In 1837, the Danish Royal Society announces a prize for a suitable essay on the basis of morals. Schopenhauer submits the only entry and compiles it into a book. The Royal Society claims Schopenhauer did not understand the question and did not award him the prize. Preface to the book? RAAAAAANNNNNNNNT. What a great ensemble of insults. The man is bitter. Delicious.To the juice of it! Schop (prós amigos) first dedicates an entire section to a devastating critique of Kant’s moral philosophy, accor...

In my opinion the chapter on Kant was a tad too long. The rest of Schopenhauer’s writing is superb. I can’t imagine an ethics course not discussing this work.

Interesting argument against Kant's categorical imperative and other systems of ethics that downplay or even outright dismiss the concept of compassion.