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en-wikipedia-org-6772		On the Basis of Morality - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1597	169	67	After this incident, Schopenhauer took the opportunity to demonstrate that Hegel's writings are, as he says, "a pseudo-philosophy that cripples all mental powers, suffocates real thinking and substitutes by means of the most outrageous use of language the hollowest, the most devoid of sense, the most thoughtless, and, as the outcome confirms, the most stupefying jumble of words", a claim which he normally considered too self-evident for support of arguments. The first section is an introduction in which Schopenhauer provides his account of the question posed by the Royal Danish Society and his interpretation of the history of western ethics. In the second section, Schopenhauer embarks on a criticism of Kant's foundation of ethics. For Schopenhauer, this was the only merit of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. According to Schrödinger, Schopenhauer had solved one of the two fundamental problems of ethics: "But let me say once more: I was not trying to show forth the motives that lead to ethical action, here to exhibit a new 'foundation for morality'.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6772.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6772.txt