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Wolves, Dogs, and Moral Geniuses: Anthropocentrism in Schopenhauer and Freud

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Schopenhauer and Freud reject the anthropocentrism of the Western philosophical tradition by claiming that humans and animals are motivated by the same impulses, but they reinforce elements of that anthropocentrism by retaining the identification of animality with self-interested savagery, and by reserving for humans the capacity to overcome that state.

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  1. Central Washington University, Ellensburg, USA

    Matthew C. Altman & Cynthia D. Coe

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

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Altman, M.C., Coe, C.D. (2017). Wolves, Dogs, and Moral Geniuses: Anthropocentrism in Schopenhauer and Freud. In: Shapshay, S. (eds) The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook. Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62947-6_21

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