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100 1 _aSchopenhauer, Arthur,
_d1788-1860
245 1 4 _aThe Basis of Morality
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Basis_of_Morality
500 _aRelease date is 2014-02-16
508 _aProduced by Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive - Cornell University)
520 _a"The Basis of Morality" by Arthur Schopenhauer is a philosophical essay written in 1839. Schopenhauer challenges traditional ethical systems—including Kant's categorical imperative, religious promises of heavenly reward, and governmental laws—arguing they all rest on selfish egoism. Instead, he proposes that true morality stems from compassion: the immediate participation in another's suffering, where the barrier between self and other dissolves. This controversial work, which critiqued Hegelian philosophy, was rejected by the Royal Danish Society despite being their only submission. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aEthics
700 1 _aBullock, Arthur Brodrick,
_d1860-
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44929
999 _c85768
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