A metafísica da vontade de Schopenhauer e a legitimidade moral das ações compassivas

Abstract

In this work it is analyzed how Schopenhauer makes his ethics of compassion legitimate. Therefore, we take as a starting point h is main works: The World as Volition and Representation more specifically from Books II and IV and, in sequence , Parerga and Paralipomena and On the Fundament of Moral , bringing significant fragments of other works of this philosopher , in addition to the writings of several exper t authors who help us to understand Schopenhaurian ethics, based on their questions. In this way, our aim is to explain how the Danzig philosopher deals with the description about the criteria capable of identifying human actions of a compassionate or self ish character, given that certain acts hide individual interests behind what may seem to be compassion. In summary, the present study makes us realize the difference between both compassion and selfishness because compassion concerns a spontaneous and genuine phenomenon, seen as a manifestation of the intelligible character, which the philosopher establ ished with reference to the Volition and the defined as the free Volition itself.