La compassione come orientamento affettivo. Scheler critico dell’etica di Schopenhauer

In order to show what space compassion carves out within Max Scheler’s phenomenology of emotional life, in the first section it will be presented and discussed the arguments that Scheler points out to criticize Schopenhauer's thesis that, despite compassion is a mysterious phenomenon, it must be considered as the only authentic moral impulse. This critical comparison will allow us to understand, more accurately, what the conditions of possibility of that genuine compassion are. Accordingly, Scheler considers this kind of emotional experience a true antidote to affective diseases that can compromise the evaluative abilities of the human being. In doing so, the difference that exists between compassion and some phenomena of co-feeling that characterize emotional life, will be more understandable.