La compasión en la moral de A. Schopenhauersus implicaciones pedagógicas

Abstract

In this article, the authors examine the concept of morality and its foundations in the work of A. Schopenhauer. For this author, the function of ethics is not the prescription of norms on how the human being must act, but to interpret, to explain and to reduce to its ultimate foundation the very diverse human conduct in its moral dimension. Schopenhauer assigns to compassion the foundation of morality since it is the only thing that excludes selfishness as a motivation for conduct. And compassion is exerted in the experience of suffering and deficiency of the other; in turning the suffering of the other into my suffering. This article also emphasises Schopenhauer's influence on the philosophers and intellectuals of the last two centuries and the consequences of Schopenhauer's ethics for moral education.