Klowey’s Reviews > The Basis of Morality > Status Update

Finished Chapter 9: On the Ethical Difference of the Character
[comments on no free will and its consequences wrt morality and ethics]

Part Four: On the Meta Physical Explanation of the Primal Ethical Phenomenon
Chapter 1: How This Appendix must be Understood

CHAPTER VIII. THE PROOF NOW GIVEN CONFIRMED BY EXPERIENCE.
about Compassion, animals

Starting:
CHAPTER IX. ON THE ETHICAL DIFFERENCE OF CHARACTER.
p. 175

CHAPTER VIII.
THE PROOF NOW GIVEN CONFIRMED BY EXPERIENCE.
p. 157

Finished: Chapter 7: The Virtue of Loving Kindness

Starting: Chapter 8 : The proof now given confirmed by experience

Finished: CHAPTER VI. THE VIRTUE OF JUSTICE."
compassion, justice, lies, duty

Starting CHAPTER VII.
THE VIRTUE OF LOVING-KINDNESS.

Starting
CHAPTER V .
STATEMENT AND PROOF OF THE ONLY TRUE MORAL INCENTIVE.

starting CHAPTER IV .
CRITERION OF ACTIONS OF MORAL WORTH.

Puts out challenge ethics must overcome (egoism) to establish true morality.
Conditions of the Problem & Skeptical View set up the fundamental problem for ethics to solve: how to ground morality in something beyond self-interest or egoism, appealing to a natural, intuitive basis found in human nature. They position Schopenhauer to then argue, in subsequent chapters, that compassion is the sole true moral incentive.

Finished:
Chapter 9: Fichte's Ethics as a Magnifying Glass for the Errors of the Kantian
Part Three: The Founding of Ethics
Chapter 1: Conditions of the Problem
Chapter 2: Sceptical view

Starting:
Chapter 3: Anti-moral Incentives