Reconceptualising Schopenhauer’s “Compassion” through Diametric and Concentric Spatial Structures of Relation

Reconceptualising Schopenhauer’s “Compassion” through Diametric and Concentric Spatial Structures of Relation

Schopenhauer’s compassion (Mitleid) emphasises that a person participates immediately in another’s suffering. A pervasive theme among critics historically is that Schopenhauer engages in an unwitting reduction of compassion to some form of egoism. This article argues that a spatial-relational framew...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul Downes
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filosofia 2017-03-01
Series:Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia
Subjects:
compassion
egoism
concentric space
diametric space
causality
self
Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/1042

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https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/1042

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