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Author Shapshay, Sandra, 1969- author.

Title Reconstructing Schopenhauer's ethics : hope, compassion and animal welfare / Sandra Shapshay
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 230 pages)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 30, 2019)
Subject Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.
SUBJECT Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860 fast
Subject Ethics.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
Ethics
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018052685
ISBN 9780190906832
0190906839
0190906812
9780190906818