Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics: Hope, Compassion.
Schopenhauer’s infamous misogynous essay. “Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted — in a word, are big children all their lives.”.Sandra Shapshay's book can be located in this context. It offers a reconstruction of one important strand of Schopenhauer's overall project, his ethical theory, particularly as spelled out in his 1840 essay On the Basis of Morality.A Genre that Matters: Schopenhauer on the Ethical Significance of Tragedy A work in progress Sandy Shapshay, Dept. of Philosophy, Indiana University When even the best of us hear Homer or some other tragedian imitating one of the heroes sorrowing and making a long lamenting speech or singing and beating his breast, you know that we enjoy.
Schopenhauer’s biggest fallacy is his belief that the human mind is a mindless machine, taking in information without any consideration and analysis of the information. However, the primary function of a book is to force a reader to analyze the ideas it has to offer.Kant and Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer objected to the metaphysics of Kant, and yet he is classified as a Kantian. I argue that the conventional designation is a valid one, and that objections put forward by Schopenhauer are only semantic in the end.
Sandra Shapshay, Reconstructing Schopenhauer’s Ethics: Hope, Compassion, and Animal Welfare (Oxford University Press, 2019), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2019) Linda T. Zagzebski, Exemplarist Moral Theory (Oxford University Press, 2017), in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 21 (2018).
