Educação e moralidade na metafísica de Arthur Schopenhauer

Abstract

The objective of this work is to understand Arthur Schopenhauer's (1788 – 1860) thought on education and its with morality in the midst of a metaphysics consideration of the Will as an essential center for philosophy. The specific objectives are to understand his philosophical organism that considers the Will as a thing-in-itself, to explain how Schopenhauer understands education, and to analyze the concept of morality and whether or not it can be taught and changed by education. For Schopenhauer, developing self-knowledge is essential to is studying for the investigation of character and its repercussions on the agent's moral questions. Therefore, in view of a moral conception that points to a determinism on the part of Schopenhauer, who considers it descriptive, and based on compassion and not being taught, but apprehended, the “ethics of improvement” provides the individual with a possibility of selfknowledge , which guides reason from feelings. Consider an education that produces repentance and a sincere desire not to repeat the same mistakes, however much it cannot alter your natural inclination. In this way, for Schopenhauer, education should not aim at a moral change, which is impossible in its philosophical framework, but should have the role of producing selfknowledge in which the student is the protagonist in this process so that, finally, he himself can circumvent what is undesirable.