Abstract

This study aims to reconstruct and examine the response to the objection throw against ethics of Kant by Schopenhauer in the §7, Über die Grundlage der Moral, that is, discriminates between morally right and wrong is, after all, selfishness and not any kind of contradiction in the universalization of the maxims, in the works of Rawls A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, also affects to the justice as fairness.

Keywords: ethics, selfishness , universality, reciprocity, ethics of compassion.