Ingmar Persson

Morality from Compassion

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Produktbeschreibung

Schopenhauer saw compassion as the basis of morality. Ingmar Persson argues that compassion must be supplemented with attitudes like sympathy and benevolence, and that morality essentially involves a concern for justice which is independent of attitudes based on empathy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780192845535
• ISBN-10: 0192845535
• Artikelnr.: 62079708

Autorenporträt

Ingmar Persson was Professor of Practical Philosophy at Lund University from 2001 to 2004 and then Professor of Practical Philosophy at University of Gothenburg until his retirement in 2018. Since 2010 he has been Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Schopenhauer on Compassion as the Basis of Morality
2: Morality and the Distinction between Oneself and Others
3: The Partiality and moral Importance of Empathy
4: Biases in Favour of the Negative
5: Demandingness as Objection to Norms