Arthur Schopenhauer
Grammatical: Section titled 'Psychology': substituted 'with respect to' for 'about' in final sentence of section.
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{{blockquote|The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it. What is decided by it is nothing less than the composition of the next generation ...Schopenhauer, Arthur, [[:s:The World as Will and Representation/Supplements to the Fourth Book|''The World as Will and Representation'', Supplements to the Fourth Book]]}} |
{{blockquote|The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it. What is decided by it is nothing less than the composition of the next generation ...Schopenhauer, Arthur, [[:s:The World as Will and Representation/Supplements to the Fourth Book|''The World as Will and Representation'', Supplements to the Fourth Book]]}} |
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It has often been argued that Schopenhauer's thoughts on sexuality foreshadowed the [[evolution|theory of evolution]], a claim met with satisfaction by [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]] as he included a quotation from Schopenhauer in his ''[[The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex|Descent of Man]]''.{{Cite book|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3ADescent_of_Man_1875.djvu/602|title=The Descent of Man|last=Darwin|first=Charles|page=586|archive-date=21 October 2021|access-date=3 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021102750/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3ADescent_of_Man_1875.djvu/602|url-status=live}} This has also been noted |
It has often been argued that Schopenhauer's thoughts on sexuality foreshadowed the [[evolution|theory of evolution]], a claim met with satisfaction by [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]] as he included a quotation from Schopenhauer in his ''[[The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex|Descent of Man]]''.{{Cite book|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3ADescent_of_Man_1875.djvu/602|title=The Descent of Man|last=Darwin|first=Charles|page=586|archive-date=21 October 2021|access-date=3 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021102750/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3ADescent_of_Man_1875.djvu/602|url-status=live}} This has also been noted with respect to [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]'s concepts of the [[libido]] and the [[unconscious mind]], and [[evolutionary psychology]] in general."Nearly a century before Freud ... in Schopenhauer there is, for the first time, an explicit philosophy of the unconscious and of the body." Safranski p. 345. |
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=== Political and social thought === |
=== Political and social thought === |
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