Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics: Hope, Compassion, and Animal Welfare

ISBN-13: 9780190906801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 248 str.

Sandra Shapshay

Recenzje

This elegantly written book provides a much-needed rehabilitation of Schopenhauer as an ethical theorist. Shapshay resists the dominant portrayal of Schopenhauer as a life-denying pessimist, and argues that his moral theory, which advocates of a life of compassionate action, stands in its own right. Schopenhauer emerges as a hopeful and progressive thinker, who widens the circle of compassion to encompass all sentient beings.

O autorze

Sandra Shapshay is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University-Bloomington. Her work centers on the history of ethics and aesthetics in the 19th century, with particular focus on Schopenhauer and Kant, and aims to bring the insights of this history to bear on contemporary debates. She recently edited The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook (2017).