Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality: The Humble Path to Ethics

Author:   Gerard Mannion ,  Professor Joseph Friggieri ,  Professor Moira Gatens ,  Dr. Simon Glendinning
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9780754608233


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   06 November 2003
Format:   Hardback
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"This work challenges the textbook assessment of Schopenhauer as militant atheist and absolute pessimist. In examining Schopenhauer's grappling with religion, theology and Kant's moral philosophy, Mannion suggests we can actually discern a ""religious"" humility in method in Schopenhauer's work, seen most clearly in his ethics of compassion and his doctrine of salvation. Given Schopenhauer's opinion of religion as the ""metaphysics of the people"", his utilisation of and affinity with many religious ideas and doctrines, and the culmination of his philosophy in a doctrine of salvation that ends in the ""mystical"", Mannion suggests that Schopenhauer's philosophy is an explanatory hypothesis which functionally resembles religious belief systems in many ways. Mannion further argues that Schopenhauer cannot claim to have gone any further than such religious systems in discerning the ""true"" nature of ultimate reality, for he admits that they also end in the ""mystical"", beyond which we must remain silent. Indeed, Schopenhauer offers an interpretation, as opposed to outright rejection of religion and his system gains the coherence that it does through being parasitic upon religious thought itself""."

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Author:   Gerard Mannion ,  Professor Joseph Friggieri ,  Professor Moira Gatens ,  Dr. Simon Glendinning
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9780754608233


ISBN 10:   0754608239
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   06 November 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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'... the book is a valuable and original contribution to the growing stream of publications on Schopenhauer.' Ethical Perspectives '... Gerard Mannion offers his readers a judiciously thought out, innovative and well researched 'religious' interpretation of Schopenhauer [...] that does full justice, in a way that few other commentators do, to the mystical elements of his thought. It is thus an original and desirable contribution to the existing secondary literature on Schopenhauer: an impressive monograph in itself, as well as being a rich source of information, reference and argument for philosophers and theologians interested in Schopenhauer's philosophy, most particularly insofar as it connects, as it so often does, with religious concerns.' Heythrop Journal


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Gerard Mannion, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Maria Theresia-college, Belgium

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