TY - GEN N2 - At the apex of his influence, from about 1860 up to the start of World War I, Arthur Schopenhauer was known first and foremost as a philosopher of pessimism, sparking an entire 'pessimism controversy' in German philosophy in the latter part of the 19th century. Still today, his main reputation is as one of the few philosophers to have argued that it would have been better never to have been. 'Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics' aims to complicate and challenge the predominant picture of Schopenhauer's ethical thought. AB - At the apex of his influence, from about 1860 up to the start of World War I, Arthur Schopenhauer was known first and foremost as a philosopher of pessimism, sparking an entire 'pessimism controversy' in German philosophy in the latter part of the 19th century. Still today, his main reputation is as one of the few philosophers to have argued that it would have been better never to have been. 'Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics' aims to complicate and challenge the predominant picture of Schopenhauer's ethical thought. T1 - Reconstructing Schopenhauer's ethics :hope, compassion, and animal welfare / AU - Shapshay, Sandra, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - B3149.E8 ID - 857753 KW - Ethics. SN - 9780190906832 TI - Reconstructing Schopenhauer's ethics :hope, compassion, and animal welfare / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190906801.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190906801.001.0001 ER -