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This book articulates and defends an interpretation of Schopenhauer's ethics as an original and credible contribution to the history of ethics. It presents Schopenhauer's ethics of compassion in direct tension with his resignationism and aims to show surprising continuities with Kant's ethics.

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

Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- Notes on Sources and Key to Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chronology of Schopenhauer's Life -- 1 Introduction -- Why Schopenhauer Today? -- Attractions of Schopenhauer's Thought -- Conclusion -- Part I The Development of Schopenhauer's System -- 2 Becoming the Author of World as Will and Representation: Schopenhauer's Life and Education 1788-1818 -- Early Life and Education -- Aenesidemus, Schulze, and Göttingen -- Johann Fichte and Berlin -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Eastern Thought and Dresden -- 3 How Platonic Are Schopenhauer's Platonic Ideas? -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 4 Schopenhauer's System of Freedom -- Freedom and System -- Freedom Under the Will -- Freedom of the Will -- Freedom from the Will -- 5 Inspiration from India -- Schopenhauer's Encounter with the Oupnek'hat -- Self and the Fellow Human Being in Light of the Oupnek'hat -- Part II Epistemology and Metaphysics -- 6 A Dream Within a Dream: Idealism and Pessimism in Schopenhauer's Philosophy -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 7 Schopenhauer's Two Metaphysics: Transcendental and Transcendent -- Introduction -- Transcendental Metaphysics -- Transcendent Metaphysics -- Schopenhauer's Argument -- Humility -- The Will: Kantian Limitations -- The Will: Generalization -- Conclusion -- 8 Metaphysics and the Sciences in Schopenhauer -- Scientific Knowledge -- Philosophy of Nature -- Nature and Humanity -- Teleology and Temporality -- A New Approach to Philosophy of Nature -- Philosophies of the Sciences -- Evolution, Pessimism, and the Sciences -- Part III Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art -- 9 Aesthetic Humanism: Poetry's Role in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel and Schopenhauer -- Romantic Poetry -- Aesthetic Humanism and the Blessings of Art -- Poetry and Truth in Schopenhauer