A ética da compaixão como arma de combate ao pior dos mundos possíveis

Authors

  • Gilmara Coutinho Pereira Universidade Federal da Paraíba, UFPB, João Pessoa, PB

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378634113

Keywords:

Will, Negation, Compassion

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show how we can escape of the sufferings caused by Will in a way that deny it. The affirmation or the negation of the Will consists in the knowledge of itself. When the man is aware of consciousness itself as a phenomenon, he has a clear and distinct idea of himself and he is exempt of any illusion. Thus he accepts the tension between the desire of what he does not have and the boredom of what he owns or on the opposite, he will deny the Will and he will abolish the desire. A possible way to deny the Will is the compassion, and it is only possible when one is aware of what is: a unit. Then he begins to perceive the other as a part that belongs to him. Instead to aim the private wishes, what conceives the egoism, he searches the collective well-being, that reintegrate the union of the man with the others beings.

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Author Biography

Gilmara Coutinho Pereira, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, UFPB, João Pessoa, PB

Mestranda PPGFIL — UFPB.

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Capa Voluntas v.2, n.1

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Published

2011-06-01

How to Cite

Pereira, G. C. (2011). A ética da compaixão como arma de combate ao pior dos mundos possíveis. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 2(1), 63–82. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378634113

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011): Estudos sobre Schopenhauer – Ed. 03

Section

Ethics and Aesthetics

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