This lecture discusses the 19th century German Idealist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's work, On The Basis of Morality, and focuses on his views on the relationship between the moral incentive of compassion (Mitleid) and the virtue of loving kindness or philanthropy (Menschenliebe). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Schopenhauer's On The Basis of Morality - amzn.to/3P6c9Qk

This lecture discusses the 19th century German Idealist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's work, On The Basis of Morality, and focuses on his views on the positive or negative moral value of lying. Usually lyric is wrong, because it deprives someone of the truth and leads them to act upon false information. Schopenhauer argues, however, that in some cases, we are entirely justified in lying to another person To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Schopenhauer's On The Basis of Morality - amzn.to/3P6c9Qk

This lecture discusses the 19th century German Idealist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's work, On The Basis of Morality, and focuses on his views on justice and injustice in terms of quantity and quality. All justice or injustice is more or less equal in terms of quality, but can very considerably in terms of quantity. One of the main factors we have to consider, according to Schopenhauer is the amount of harm or benefit involved To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Schopenhauer's On The Basis of Morality - amzn.to/3P6c9Qk

This lecture discusses the 19th century German Idealist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's work, On The Basis of Morality, and focuses on his views on what fulfilling one's moral duty (Pflicht) involves. Schopenhauer also criticizes the notion of imperfect duties, restricting the concept of duty to actions whose omission constitutes a wrong. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Schopenhauer's On The Basis of Morality - amzn.to/3P6c9Qk