{"product_id":"schopenhauer-religion-and-morality","title":"Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality","description":"This work challenges the textbook assessment of Schopenhauer as  militant atheist and absolute pessimist. In examining Schopenhauer's  grappling with religion, theology and Kant's moral philosophy,  Mannion suggests we can actually discern a 'religious' humility in  method in Schopenhauer's work, seen most clearly in his ethics of  compassion and his doctrine of salvation.  Given Schopenhauer’s opinion of religion as the  ’metaphysics of the people’, his utilisation of and affinity with many  religious ideas and doctrines, and the culmination of his philosophy in a doctrine of salvation that ends in the ’mystical’, Mannion suggests that Schopenhauer’s philosophy is an explanatory hypothesis which  functionally resembles religious belief systems in many ways.   Mannion further argues that Schopenhauer cannot claim to have  gone any further than such religious systems in discerning the 'true'  nature of ultimate reality, for he admits that they also end in the ’mystical’, beyond which we must remain silent. Indeed, Schopenhauer offers an interpretation, as opposed to outright  rejection of religion and his system gains the coherence that it does  through being parasitic upon religious thought itself.  Given current debates between theologians and philosophers in relation to 'postmodernity' and 'postmodern thought', this book illustrates that Schopenhauer should be a key figure in such debates.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54236391899480,"sku":"9780754608233","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780754608233.jpg?v=1770168627","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/schopenhauer-religion-and-morality","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}