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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Brodrick Bullock
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ISBN: 0486446530
Page Count: 176
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
Persuasive and humane, this classic offers Schopenhauer's fullest examination of ethical themes. A defiance of Kant's ethics of duty, it proclaims compassion as the basis of morality and outlines a perspective on ethics in which passion and desire correspond to different moral characters, behaviors, and worldviews.

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