Schopenhauer on love 4 of 4

[windandfire22]

Schopenhauer's idea of love is a very masculine one. Men do tend to look for pretty women. But us women have two kinds of men: the affectionate, kind and smart one that may be a great for raising offspring and the tall athletic one with genes worth spreading.

[DragonYearJoji]

Hmmm. And he left out the most important point of LOVE in Schopenhauer: for happiness, we have to strive to overcome the Will to Live, or transcend above it. Only then are we set free from the phenomenal world. I wonder if Alain thought of including a section on Wagner's Tristan & Isolde which took Schopenhauer's concept of Love as its central theme....

[karmacop911]

why would he expect her to have dinner with her to talk more after they just talked for hours about philosophical stuff

[weetzybat]

ahahahahahaha

what a great pickup line xD

[PPocket1984]

tybaltyrant - funny you say that because according to Alain in a recent interview, this woman and him ended up falling in love. They lasted a few years too.

[MHayes85]

@PPocket1984 Where can I find this interview?

[tybaltyrant]

"are you free for dinner?"

shut down alain. women don't like philosophers. you spent the entire program telling us why.

that lass wants a thick haired, well built footballer whom she can produce babies with - not enjoy a fulfilling life with an effeminate romantic.

[spotlitkiss]

hey! - he may be a little effeminate, but i used to fancy him so much - you could tell he identified with schopenhauer's big brain

[subwaysleuth]

His influence on Wagner was immense.

[alexstan23]

Yeah, well said. Ungrounded expectation is the bigger culprit.

[FraterAmbrosios]

"The darkest thinkers can sometimes, paradoxically, be the most cheery." Amen! Great Video!

(Other brilliant darkies include Friedrich Nietzsche and Aleister Crowley... check em' out!)

[slothafur]

FN's-Daybreak I think would fit that bill. Good video.

[spotlitkiss]

so true! - a year old comment, so if you're still alive - here's to you!