Preliminary communication

Schopenhauer’s Critique of Kant’s Ethics

Jasenka Frelih ; Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), the philosopher of postKantian tradition, in his writings The World as Will and Representation and On the Basis of Morality, has been dealing a lot with ethical questions. In that way, it was impossible to skirt from Kant’s ethical teaching, which Schopenhauer submitted to detailed criticism. Schopenhauer reproached him his ethical rigorism, which was unacceptable for Schopenhauer, knowing the fact that it represents pure formalism, but it does not tell anything on real motives that are driving force of a human behaviour. These Kant’s instructions were placed by Schopenhauer in the frame of establishing legal state, because the system in itself is not considered of human motives as being a reason for certain behaviour, while the system is exclusively considered of a formal fulfillment of a principle of justice.

Keywords

ethics; will; state; Arthur Schopenhauer; Immanuel Kant

Hrčak ID:

68570

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/68570

Publication date:

17.5.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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