This work imagines two men named Caius and Titus who abandon plans to murder romantic rivals, one possibly following principles from Hutcheson and Smith, and the other because he imagined what the death-blow would feel like to the victim.
This work imagines two men named Caius and Titus who abandon plans to murder romantic rivals, one possibly following principles from Hutcheson and Smith, and the other because he imagined what the death-blow would feel like to the victim. Its author claims that most human actions egoistically emerge from "ill-will," varieties of which are classified as "antimoral incentives." This work suggests that because "ought" statements are always hypothetical, no ethical imperative can possibly be (*) categorical. Its third section claims that the only true form of the title subject is mitleid or "compassion." This work's second section is a diatribe against Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, and it lost the Royal Danish Society of Scientific Studies essay contest in which it was entered, even though it was the only submission. For 10 points, name this major of work of ethics by Arthur Schopenhauer.
This work imagines two men named Caius and Titus who abandon plans to murder romantic rivals, one possibly following principles from Hutcheson and Smith, and the other because he imagined what the death-blow would feel like to the victim.
On the Basis of Morality [or Ãœber die Grundlage der Moral]