Description: Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics, Paperback by Schopenhauer, Arthur; Cartwright, David E. (TRN); Erdmann, Edward E. (TRN); Janaway, Christopher (INT), ISBN 0199297223, ISBN-13 9780199297221, Brand New, Free shipping in the US These two important essays show Schopenhauer at his most accessible, offering two self-contained and clearly argued contributions to ethical theory, published here in a new translation that preserves Schopenhauers style in a lucid and engaging way. This is also the only paperback edition to
publish both essays together. Schopenhauer argues, in uniquely powerful prose, that self-consciousness gives the illusion of freedom and that human actions are determined, but that we rightly feel guilt because our actions issue from our essential individual character. He locates moral value in the
virtues of loving kindness and voluntary justice that spring from the fundamental incentive of compassion. Moralitys basis is ultimately metaphysical, resting on an intuitive identification of the self with all other striving and suffering beings. The Introduction by leading Schopenhauer scholar
Christopher Janaway gives a clear summary of the argument of the essays in the context of Schopenhauers life and works and the history of ethics in the modern period. The volume includes helpful notes, up-to-date bibliography, and a full index.
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Book Title: Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.7 in
Genre: Philosophy
Item Weight: 8.8 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Christopher Janaway, Arthur Schopenhauer, David Cartwright, Edward E. Erdmann
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
