The other day I was presenting Schopenhauer’s ideas
about love and thought it would be a good idea to post some of them as well.
One might wonder why Schopenhauer, well known for him optimism and sympathy towards humanity, picked “love” as his object of studies. That’s
because he thought love has a very important meaning in the human life. We tent
to idealize it when in fact it is just a sexual instinct. What purpose does it have?
Only one, prolongation of the human race. It doesn’t care about personal interests
of individuals, about happiness and so on. For that Schopenhauer called it an
invention, an illusion and deception of nature. The poets across history
described love and the longing for it, which can’t be done completely. It’s
just too big of a force to try to exhaust it’s content.
So there we have it, a few words about Schopenhauer’s
vision of love.
Good point Adam, but I think that nowadays many couples decide not to have any child and they are still together and what more they still make love :) So maybe there is a love somewhere...
ReplyDeleteThat's Schopenhauer's point, not mine ;) No one said that love doesn't exist!
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