This issue has fascinated and troubled sensitive and concerned persons through the centuries. Plato, in The Republic, condemned physicians who allowed patients to suffer from lingering death and suggested euthanasia. So did Senaca when he raised the query of whether man is lengthening his life or death. Well known philosophers and writers who have justified or supported the cause of individuals...

I argue that Schopenhauer’s ascription of (moral) rights to animals flows naturally from his distinctive analysis of the concept of a right. In contrast to those who regard rights as fundamental and then cast wrongdoing as a matter of violating rights, he takes wrong (Unrecht) to be the more fundamental notion and defines the concept of a right (Recht) in its terms. He then offers an account of...

Pode-se afirmar que a filosofia crítica kantiana é uma espécie de suporte para fundamentação epistemológica Schopenhauer, mas teoria schopenhaueriana modo algum ela se reduz até porque Schopenhauer reprova desde compreensão Kant respeito do papel desempenham intuição e razão arquitetônica exige doze categorias como alicerce processo conhecer. Nosso texto versará sobre importância concede à e, p...

O presente trabalho se propõe a discorrer acerca da concepção de suicídio e suas motivações para Arthur Schopenhauer utilizar o romance epistolar Os sofrimentos do jovem Werther como ilustração tal percepção. Para seguimos seguinte roteiro: encontrar as metafísicas Schopenhauer; expor considerações filósofo supracitado sobre sofrimento amor; demostrar ambos os fenômenos relacionam com atitude s...

Abstract This paper analyses a hitherto unknown technique of using logic diagrams to create argument maps in eristic dialectics. The method was invented the 1810s and -20s by Arthur Schopenhauer, who is considered originator modern eristic. Schopenhauer could be interesting for several branches research field argumentation: Firstly, mapping, since here diagrammatic shown order visualise possibl...

O presente artigo apresenta a possibilidade de uma interpretação do conceito Representação no ‘Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’ partir princípio razão suficiente Schopenhauer. Assim como Wittgenstein, o filósofo alemão busca através desse esclarecer "problemas má compreensão" e uso equivocado da linguagem discurso filosófico tradição que precede, tal lógica faz, interior ‘Tractatus’, com limite ...

Schopenhauer’s claim that the essence of the world consists in Wille encounters well known difficulties. Of particular importance is the conflict of this metaphysical claim with his restrictive account of conceptuality. This paper attempts to make sense of Schopenhauer’s position by restoring him to the context of post-Kantian debate, with special attention to the early notebooks and Fourfold R...