The Northern Review

Here is what Schopenhauer said about compassion:

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Compassion means something like “spiritual consciousness of the personal tragedy of another or others and selfless tenderness directed toward it.”  Hegel does not express compassion unless, in his view, that which is living is willing.  That is a bankrupt evil idea.  It is the reasoning of a Hitler, a Pol Pot, a Stalin.  They, in their worship of the god of power would only grant a willing which was a willing which fit into their willing.

One hears about George Hegel, the philosopher.  He said this:

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

One must wonder about George Hegel. Does one only have a right to life it the life being lived is a life of willing life? What Hegel says not only is nonsense, and wrong, it is evil.