In Schopenhauer's philosophy, the foundation of morals is compassion [Mitleid], which rests on the suppression of the selfish distinction between myself and any other individual. The contemporary philosopher Byung-Chul Han, in his book Philosophy of Zen Buddhism, considers that “compassion (...) is not due to identification or to putting oneself in the other's shoes [Einfühlung]”. When analyzing Schopenhauer's philosophy, in view of his oriental influence, in contrast to the conceptions of Zen Buddhism, the author affirms that his ethics of conditioned compassion is conditioned to the identification between the Self and the Other. This article is about this criticism, considering the problem of otherness in Schopenhauer's Ethics of Compassi...