On the Basis of Morality

arthur schopenhauer e. f. j. payn david e. cartwright

Persuasive and humane, this classic offers Schopenhauer's fullest examination of ethical themes. A defiance of Kant's ethics of duty, it proclaims compassion as the basis of morality and outlines a perspective on ethics in which passion and desire correspond to different moral characters, behaviors, and worldviews.

Genres philosophynonfictionclassicsgerman literaturepsychologyessays

null pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1840

This edition

Format: null pages, Paperback
Published: June 1, 1999 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780872204423
ASIN: 0872204421
Language: English

About the author

arthur schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gdańsk, Poland) and was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer attempted to make his career as an academic by correcting and expanding Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world.

He was the son of author Johanna Schopenhauer and the older brother of Adele Schopenhauer.