How Long to Read Morality from Compassion

How Long Does it Take to Read Morality from Compassion?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 36 minutes to read Morality from Compassion by Ingmar Persson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

According to Arthur Schopenhauer, compassion is the basis of morality. He sees concern for justice as a negative form of compassion, directed at not harming anyone, as opposed to the more far-reaching, positive form of benefiting. He thinks a higher degree of compassion involves realizing that the spatio-temporal separation of individuals is illusory and that in reality they are all identical. Such compassion is impartial and all-encompassing. Compassion is suited to be the centre of morality because its object are negative feelings, and only these are real. Contrary to these Schopenhauerian claims, it is here argued that compassion must be supplemented with attitudes like sympathy and benevolence because positive feelings exist alongside negative feelings; that a concern for justice, though morally essential, is independent of these attitudes which are based on empathy; that these attitudes involve not identifying oneself with others, but taking personal identity as insignificant in empathically imagining how others feel. Schopenhauer is however right that, though these attitudes are spontaneously partial, this can be corrected. His morality is also interesting in raising the question rarely discussed in philosophical ethics of how moral virtue relates to ascetic self-renunciation. Both of these ideals are highly demanding, but the book ends by arguing that this is no objection to their validity.

How long is Morality from Compassion?

Morality from Compassion by Ingmar Persson is 154 pages long, and a total of 39,116 words.

This makes it 52% the length of the average book. It also has 48% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Morality from Compassion Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 33 minutes to read Morality from Compassion aloud.

What Reading Level is Morality from Compassion?

Morality from Compassion is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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