moral awareness

 arises through an attitude that transcends our bodily individuality, as such fleshly desires should be minimized because they push us in the opposite direct.

As many medieval Christians once assumed, Schopenhauer believed that we should minimize our fleshly desires, since moral awareness arises through an attitude that transcends our bodily individuality.

 begins in realizing that humanity is a single act of will and that each human is merely an instance and aspect of that single act. As such, the difference between tormentor and the tormented is illusory.

Within the moral realm specifically, this quest for transcendence leads him to maintain that once we recognize each human as being merely an instance and aspect of the single act of Will that is humanity itself, we will appreciate that the difference between the tormentor and the tormented is illusory, and that in fact, the very same eye of humanity looks out from each and every person.

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moral awareness