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Schopenhauer Ethics Thought

Posted on:2006-05-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C L ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360155465955Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Arthur Schopenhauer( 1788-1860) was, as a philosopher, a pessimist, founded the modern west philosophy of first river with his voluntarism. But its theories target and the center link are ethics of his pessimism ethics, namely concerning born will pain and sufferings of theories. In the ideology of Schopenhauer, the philosophy no longer pays attention to construct or purchase with the principle of the scientific knowledge. He destroyed the reasonableness center theory of the western educational circles, but concern the life meaning, the life value etc. Be a philosopher that paid attention to mankind's pains and sufferings, developed the pessimism .doctrine of the philosophy of life extreme achievement. He put forward person and world's essence is the life will, all bodies are the object of will. But the life will again was return to the blindness desire. From will to desire, from desire to disillusionment, from disillusionment to agony and nihilitv. forms the main lines of his pessimistic ethics philosophy.In Schopenhauer's opinion, the egoism is a starting point and his compassionateness ethics is to outspread, the tallest bourn is the mysterious doctrine of abstinency. In this integral system, the core is pain and sufferings, boring life essence, but to the life will of negation is then the inevitable conclusion. But everybody's existence will caused selfish tendency. So though declared not to provide one any morals standard ,but actually, Schopenhauer thought to see a person whether morals, mainly judge the basis is to see he can inhibit the life will, sacrificing the oneself, help others. Such person is a moral person. He is a supporter to the life will of negative, he think that this is just miracle drug that saves a life time. Take a wide view the whole ethics system of Schopenhauer, although take pessimism doctrine as precondition, the honesty, loyalty .tolerant, geniality, charity, classic and self-restraint morals that he promote, great harmony thoughts still have the widespread and ethical meaning today. This text is divided into the four greatest parts.Firstly, from inquiry into the ethics source of Schopenhauer .The point introduces the optimistic doctrine, utilitarianism, Buddhism, Christianity ethics andKant's ethics thought to the influence of the Schopenhauer.Section 2 inquired into the uncle originally the relation problem that metaphysics of Schopenhauer and its ethics learn.Section 3 is the core of the article Discuss Schopenhauer demonstrate ethics from the empirical and personal behavior ,to argument the foundation of the freedom and morals carries on the philosophy, became the sympathetic toward ethical systems of thought. Now that life since is pain and sufferings , the final outcome is thus pessimism again, only then can get away from pain and sufferings of the human life to the negation of the life will so, attaining the unreal state.Section4 Schopenhauer did have a strong effect on Nietzsche. Compared their ethics thought is very important part.
Keywords/Search Tags:voluntarism, freedom, sympathize, individual principle
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