https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/182667 2026-05-24T11:13:35Z https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/256895 Schopenhauer's great and small ethics: On the mysteriousness, (im)mediacy, and (un)sociability action Debona, Vilmar Schopenhauer bases morality on the concept of compassion, which he assumes to be the "great mystery of ethics". He sees it and as a spontaneous action that can neither be taught or planned. However, some elements of his theory of human action allow us to conceive of an ethical-moral action (the compassionate act) as something less mysterious or immediate, rather a mediated and planned action in its social or sociability dimension, or even as one which is suggested. In this paper I propose what may be called a "valorization of the empirical apparatus" of Schopenhauerian thinking on human action (vfs-a-vis the metaphysical apparatus) by distinguishing between what I call great ethics and small ethics, a differentiation that I believe can be inferred from some of the philosopher's elaborations 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/256894 Pragmatic Pessimism or on The 'Dark Gray' of the World Debona, Vilmar How can a theory of happiness, based upon the practical use of reason and acquired character, be understood in the thought of Schopenhauer, the great pessimist metaphysic? This article aims to prove that Schopenhauer’s pessimism can be better understood if considered, on the one hand, as metaphysical pessimism and, on the other, as pragmatic pessimism. For this purpose, I seek to show that the consideration of Schopenhauer’s singular eudemonology is fundamental to fully understand his pessimism. 2022-01-14T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/254804 Sexto Empírico e o ceticismo pirrônico Conte, Jaimir Artigo introdutório publicado na Revista CULT, 121, Janeiro/2008, ano 11, pp. 39-42 2008-01-30T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/229603 Milagres e Leis da Natureza em Peirce e Hume Albieri, Sara This artide aims at arguing that Peirce's criticism towards Hume's argument on mirac1es, rather than pinpointing the antagonism, shows the compatibility of their conceptions of Laws of Nature. 1997-08-01T00:00:00Z