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The Basis of Morality

by Arthur Schopenhauer

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Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf · 7 h 19 min · 13 parts

  1. Translator's Preface and Introduction

    22:16

  2. The Question and Part I. Chapters 1-2

    24:07

  3. Part II. Chapters 1-2

    20:13

  4. Part II. Chapters 3-4

    59:33

  5. Part II. Note on Ch. 4, and Chapters 5-6

    44:58

  6. Part II. Chapters 7-8 and Note on Ch. 8

    26:33

  7. Part II. Chapter 9; Part III. Chapters 1-2

    33:16

  8. Part III. Chapters 3-5

    40:06

  9. Part III. Chapter 6

    35:36

  10. Part III. Chapter 7

    12:46

  11. Part III. Chapter 8

    49:07

  12. Part III. Chapter 9

    28:50

  13. Part IV. Chapters 1-2 and Judgement of the Royal Danish Society of Sciences

    41:43

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Fear, reward and reputation complicate the task of identifying a morally good action. Arthur Schopenhauer examines that problem in an essay on the foundations of ethics, translated into English by Arthur Brodrick Bullock. Its opening sections challenge Kant’s account of duty and conscience before turning to justice, loving-kindness and the motives behind human conduct. The translator’s introduction explains the argument’s structure and the dispute surrounding its submission to the Danish Royal Society of Sciences.

The discussion reaches beyond abstract rules into the pressures of everyday life. Schopenhauer considers commercial trust, poverty, social standing and the wish to appear respectable, distinguishing conduct driven by self-interest from freely given kindness. His sharp treatment of rival theories gives readers a way to compare competing accounts of moral worth.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher whose bleak, will-centered metaphysics and elegant prose influenced Nietzsche, Wagner, Tolstoy, and Freud. Long ignored in his lifetime, he found fame only in his final years, and his pessimism became one of the nineteenth century's most distinctive philosophical voices.

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First published
1840
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
132
Language
English
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Jeffrey Allen Stumpf