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On the Basis of Morality

On the Basis of Morality

by Arthur Schopenhauer (Author), EricF.J.Payne (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

This edition originally published by Berghahn Books. Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Paynes definitive translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950). This edition includes an Introduction by David Cartwright, a translators preface, biographical note, selected bibliography, and an index. For convenient reference to passages in Kant's work discussed by Schopenhauer, Academy edition numbers have been added.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 226
 Edition: n.e of 2 Revised ed
 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Published: 14 Feb 2000
ISBN 10: 0872204421
ISBN 13: 9780872204423

Media Reviews
Schopenhauer's On the Basis of Morality deserves to be a standard text for courses in religious ethics. It doesn't fit into the prevalent genealogies of virtue ethics and utilitarianism, thus reminding us of other genealogies (pessimism, Nietzsche, Buddhism). It poses fundamental questions about the monotheistic background to the dominant ethical systems of the day as virtually no other work does. I have found that reading it after an intensive study of Kant's ethical and religious writings leads to fantastic discussions, which open the floor for great insights into the relation of religion and ethics.--Mark Larrimore, Princeton University
Author Bio
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher whose work was a reaction to Hegelian idealism and constitutes one of the pillars of Western pessimist thought. He is the author of such seminal texts as Parerga and Paralipomena, The Wisdom of Life, and The World as Will and Representation.