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.