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Feb 5, 2018 · A ladder to the good or a blind desire to procreate? Plato, de Beauvoir, and Schopenhauer explain what love is, and what you should do about it.
Schopenhauer argues that love is (really) the individual human experience of a universal human impulse to procreate, and further that procreation should be (ideally) between a man and woman who are compliments of one another, in order to form a neutral product.
Quien se casa por amores, ha de vivir con dolores (He who marries for love must live in grief), says the Spanish proverb.
Schopenhauer acknowledges that there is more to erotic desire than egoism, and he is anxious to distinguish it from generalized appetite. Ultimately, however, we find him paying lip service to the beloved’s “irreplaceability” only to put forward views that are ultimately in tension with it.
Mar 18, 2019 · Schopenhauer believed love is our sexual instinct wearing the mask of passion and romance. This sexual instinct deceives people that they love each other so that they have sex and accomplish nature’s greatest goal: procreation.
Apr 10, 2019 · On Self-Love and Identity. “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”. “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”.
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May says of Schopenhauer that ‘[h]is genius is to see romantic love as having a wholly biological purpose – producing and raising children – while also doing justice to the experience of being in love, with its willingness to sacrifice everything for the loved one’.
