本书汇集了国际公认的叔本华学者，对他的道德哲学提出了新的观点。
尽管阿瑟·叔本华预见并参与了许多现在在英语道德哲学中被认可的论点，但他作为这一领域内当代话语的潜在贡献者，经常被忽视。叔本华不仅是19世纪康德道义论最重要的批评者之一，他还发展了一个基于同情心的看似合理的道德体系。叔本华的体系与休谟和哈奇森等人所熟悉的感伤主义传统之间有着有趣的相似之处，但叔本华的独特形而上学为道德心理学、行动哲学、价值论和道德认识论中的标准问题提供了独特的方法。本书中的各章揭示了叔本华伦理纲领的相关性和影响，试图展示尚未开发的丰富概念资源，以解决紧迫的道德问题。它们涉及广泛的主题，包括：动物的道德地位；自杀的道德容许性；利他行为的可能性；美德和禁欲主义的本质；叔本华如何将西方影响与印度的各种道德思想传统相结合，等等。
对叔本华、19世纪哲学和伦理学史感兴趣的学者和高级学生将对叔本华的道德哲学感兴趣。
Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy)
This volume brings together internationally recognised Schopenhauer scholars to develop new perspectives on his moral philosophy.
Despite anticipating and engaging with many of the arguments now recognisable in Anglophone moral philosophy, Arthur Schopenhauer has often been overlooked as a potential contributor to contemporary discourse within this domain. Not only was he one of the most important 19th-century critics of Kantian deontology, Schopenhauer also developed a plausible moral system of his own grounded in compassion. While interesting parallels can be drawn between his system and the sentimentalist tradition familiar from the likes of Hume and Hutcheson, Schopenhauer’s idiosyncratic metaphysics provide a unique approach to standard questions in moral psychology, the philosophy of action, axiology, and moral epistemology. The chapters in this book draw out the relevance and influence of Schopenhauer’s ethical program, attempting to demonstrate the as yet untapped wealth of conceptual resources for pressing moral problems. They address a wide range of topics, including: the moral status of animals; the moral permissibility of suicide; the possibility of altruistic action; the nature of virtue and asceticism; how Schopenhauer integrated Western influences with various Indian traditions of moral thinking, and more.
Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students interested in Schopenhauer, 19th-century philosophy, and the history of ethics.
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