Schopenhauer's Politics: Ethics, Jurisprudence and the State

In Robert Stern, Alex Neill & Christopher Janaway (eds.), Better Consciousness. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 171–188 (2010-02-19)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Right and Wrong Ethics and Legislation Morality and the State The Origin, Foundation and Purpose of the State Political Obligation and the Social Contract The Theory of Punishment Jurisprudence The Value of the State Conclusion References.

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Schopenhauer's politics ‐ ethics, jurisprudence and the State   connection between Schopenhauer's political theory and ethics   Schopenhauer's account ‐ of key political concepts of right and wrong   primary and positive notion of wrong ‐ will's natural selfishness5 and man's failure in considering interests of others   Schopenhauer's politics and ethics, separate areas of thought and practice, linked by shared concepts   morality and the State ‐ Schopenhauer's response, individual right needing safeguarding   Schopenhauer's metaphysics ‐ his determinism and theory of innate and immutable individual moral character   the State ‐ as ‘masterpiece of rational and accumulated egoism of all which understands itself’   Schopenhauer's theory of political obligation ‐ founded on social contract, based on a ‘tacit’ between state and citizen   theory of punishment ‐ failure to obey laws, constituting breach of social contract

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10.1002/9781444322866.ch11

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