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Compassion and Solidarity with Sufferers: The Metaphysics of Mitleid
In Robert Stern, Alex Neill & Christopher Janaway (eds.), Better Consciousness. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 138–156 (2010-02-19)
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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.
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
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