Chapter 9. Compassion and Solidarity with Sufferers: The Metaphysics of Mitleid
- Alex Neill,
- Christopher Janaway
Published Online: 3 FEB 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444322866.ch9
Copyright © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value
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How to Cite
Cartwright, D. E. (2010) Compassion and Solidarity with Sufferers: The Metaphysics of Mitleid, in Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value (eds A. Neill and C. Janaway), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444322866.ch9
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University of Southampton, UK
Publication History
- Published Online: 3 FEB 2010
- Published Print: 19 FEB 2010
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Print ISBN: 9781405192941
Online ISBN: 9781444322866
- Summary
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Keywords:
- compassion and solidarity with sufferers - metaphysics of Mitleid;
- motivational pluralism - Schopenhauer's stand, that will, unconscious, goalless, striving to be, is ‘the inner content’;
- caricature of Schopenhauer's temperament and singularity of the will;
- Schopenhauer, rejecting type of motivational monism - explicitly rejecting psychological egoism;
- paradigm case of nonegoistic action - sacrificial death of the Swiss folk-hero, Arnold von Winkelried;
- psychological egoism, not established conclusively by philosophy or psychology;
- Schopenhauer - ‘only insofar as an action has sprung from compassion does it have moral worth’;
- First Metaphysics of Mitleid - compassionate agents participating in other's suffering, conception of compassion;
- naturalizing compassion - Schopenhauer's attempt in grounding compassion metaphysically;
- solidarity with sufferers and different worlds - Mitleids, moral articulating solidarity with sufferers
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Motivational Pluralism
Compassion
The First Metaphysics of Mitleid
The Second Metaphysics of Mitleid
Naturalizing Compassion
The Solidarity With Sufferers and Different Worlds
References