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David Bather Woods on Schopenhauer on Compassion

Philosophy Bites

CHAPTER

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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