Kochać (się) albo nie kochać (się), oto jest pytanie: Schopenhauerowska metafizyka miłości płciowej

Henryk Benisz

doi:10.31648/hip.877

Published: 2018-09-131

No. 16 (2010)

To Love or not to Love, That is the Question: Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of Sexual Love

Henryk Benisz

Humanities and Natural Sciences

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.877

Abstract

Schopenhauer believes that a sublime feeling of love between two people always is an expression of a sexual love, which is perfidiously induced and attractively manifested by the will to live. In fact, the aim of love is to tie together in pairs two properly matched individuals in order to procreate further individuals and thus prolong the life of species, and ultimately - ensure a quality and sustainability of life itself. People deceived by the will to live, usually do not attain a fulfilment or a happiness. Also their single existences are marked with pain and suffering that are difficult to bear. Schopenhauer’s metaphysics of sexual love discloses the absolute and relative criteria used by the will to live in respect to the choice of lovers, considers the matter of the rare phenomenon of a metaphysical love and indicates the possibility of a partial liberation from the influence of the will and taking care of the own interests by particular individuals.

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Schopenhauer, metaphysics of sexual love, the will to live, passion, the criteria of natural selection, procreation

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Benisz, H. (2018). To Love or not to Love, That is the Question: Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of Sexual Love. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (16), 55–75. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.877

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