The Research Excellence Framework needs to change so universities all accumulate credit – and funding – where credit is dueIn 1837 the Royal Danish Academy announced a prize for the best essay on the foundations of morality. There was only one entry,from the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. He didn’t accumulate the prize, partly on the grounds that he had been indecently offensive approximately the philosophers Fichte and Hegel – but his entry, or the book On the Basis of Morality,is now considered one of the key works of moral philosophy. He did not take the academy’s decision with good grace, venting his fury with the judges and amplifying his derision of Hegel in the preface of the published version.
A year earlier Schopenhauer had won the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences prize for his essay On the Freedom of the Human Will. This is also justly celebrated, and but many regard On the Basis of Morality as far more primary.
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Source: theguardian.com