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Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's Preface to the Second EditionTranslator's Preface to the First EditionTranslator's IntroductionThe QuestionPart I. Introduction Chapter I. The problem Chapter II. General RetrospectPart II. Critique of Kant's Basis of Ethics Chapter I. Preliminary Remarks Chapter II. On the Imperative Form of the Kantian Ethics Chapter III. On the Assumption of Duties Towards Ourselves in Particular Chapter IV. On the Basis of the Kantian EthicsNote Chapter V. On the Leading Principle of the Kantian Ethics Chapter VI. On the Derived Forms of the Leading Principle of the Kantian Ethics Chapter VII. Kant's Doctrine of Conscience Chapter VIII. Kant's Doctrine of the Intelligible and Empirical Character. Theory of FreedomNote Chapter IX. Fichte's Ethics as a Magnifying Glass for the Errors of the KantianPart III. The Founding of Ethics Chapter I. Conditions of the problem Chapter II. Sceptical View Chapter III. Antimoral Incentives Chapter IV. Criterion of Actions of Moral Worth Chapter V. Statement and Proof of the Only True Moral Incentive Chapter VI. The Virtue of Justice Chapter VII. The Virtue of Loving-Kindness Chapter VIII. The Proof Now Given Confirmed by Experience Chapter IX. On the Ethical Difference of CharacterPart IV. On the Metaphysical Explanation of the Primal Ethical Phaenomenon Chapter I. How This Appendix Must Be Understood Chapter II. The Metaphysical Groundworkjudicum regiae danicae scientiarum societatis
