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Listening to this as an audiobook. Schopenhauer is writing an essay to the Royal Society on the basis of morality, and starts with a critique of Kant’s categorical imperative, his argument claiming that this ethical framework is based on theological principles and assumptions. This is compelling and Nietzsche’s claim that ethics are invented after a moral claim is asserted may ring true here.

With one’s principles one seeks to tyrannise over one’s habits or to justify or honour or scold or conceal them - two people with the same principles probably seek something fundamentally different with them.