Arthur Schopenhauer · Philosophy
Schopenhauer’s ethics and his final salvation. Morality is grounded not in reason or duty but in <em>compassion</em> - the immediate participation in another’s suffering, possible because, behind the illusion of separateness, we are all one will. And the highest salvation is the <em>denial of the will-to-live</em>: the saint’s turning of the will against itself, ending in a peace beyond all reason.
You learned that Schopenhauer grounds morality in compassion - the immediate sharing of another’s suffering, possible because individuation is illusion and all beings are one will - and locates ultimate salvation in the denial of the will-to-live , the saint’s self-renunciation ending in peace. Explain bot…
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