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David Bather Woods on Schopenhauer on Compassion

Philosophy Bites

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Chopna's Moral Philosophy

Schopenhauer's moral philosophy tries to identify the things that get in the way of moral behavior. Most of the time we are egoists, he says; for us death is subjectively indistinguishable from the end of the world. The second anti moral incentive is what he calls malice: where we aren't just looking out for ourselves, but we actively want others to suffer. And even though he thinks that egoism is mer human, he often calls malice devilish.

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