? Love is the core of the will to survive and the focus of all desires, so Schopenhauer named the genitals "the focus of the will". Love dominates and controls love. In the final analysis, there is a strong attraction and close connection between the two sexes, which is the expression of the will of the race to survive. It leads to reproduction and fertility. "When men and women meet with eager eyes, the initial bud of a new individual has appeared." This kind of bud is just a platonic idea, which greedily absorbs empirical materials to realize itself. This process is the passion of love between men and women. The more all the conditions and attributes of the loved one can adapt to or satisfy the wishes of the loved one, the more they can increase their strength and speed up the process. Only when two people feel very suitable can they have the highest passion. At this time, the father's will, personality and mother's wisdom are combined into one, which shows the blooming of the will of racial survival.
Schopenhauer believes that when people are in love, they often show funny and tragic phenomena. The person concerned has been occupied and dominated by the spirit of race, no longer his original face, and his behavior is completely inconsistent with his original personality. After love reached a deeper stage, his thoughts were not only poetic and noble, but also had a transcendental and supernatural tendency. If his wish can't come true, his aversion to life will overcome his fear of death, and sometimes he even commits suicide to get rid of death. That is to say, in love, especially in double suicide activities, the individual's will to survive is suppressed by the race's will to survive.
However, a "perfect" love is still difficult to be happy, because the survival will of the race distorts the cognition of the courtship subject, creating an illusion that the courtship subject ignores all the features that he originally hated, or gives a wrong explanation, and only wants to be combined with the other party forever. Schopenhauer emphasized the blindness of erotic instinct, because the illusion gradually dissipated after the racial will reached the task and the birth was completed, and the courtship subject discovered the true face of the object, and then found himself fooled by instinct.
-Love poems probably prove the blindness of love desire.
Racial will pursues a new life, but this will deceives individuals and makes them think that this is the object of love. If love is not satisfied, then it may go to the opposite side, because love will lead to hate. Schopenhauer lamented that God's love is blind, cold and changeable.
Schopenhauer also mentioned the difference between love marriage and interest marriage. The biggest difference is that the former is for the sake of race and is an act made out of the instinct of love; The latter is for the sake of individuals, and it is an act made out of the needs of interests. In a sense, interest marriage is more stable than love marriage. Because love marriage often comes from deceiving the will of the race to survive and constructing the illusion of love, after the illusion is shattered, differences will appear one after another, while interest marriage is relatively specific, practical and comprehensive. Love and marriage proceed from race and benefit future generations; The marriage of interests starts from the individual, which is not conducive to future generations (because in Schopenhauer's view, healthy future generations need good relationship and mentality of parents).
? Of course, Schopenhauer does not deny the existence of a marriage that takes into account the interests of love and reality, nor does he deny the existence of a love marriage that transcends illusion and comforts each other for a long time (however, "it almost happens after sexual love is satisfied and disappears"), but this does not change his overall pessimistic attitude towards love, so that he bluntly says that love is a traitor to life liberation. This is related to Schopenhauer's own experience. Breaking with his mother and unsuccessful feelings have led to his disgust and pessimism about love (here disgust and pessimism should be mutual).
The will of the race to survive will always exist, but the reality is often unsatisfactory. The desire to constantly pursue self-perfection can only bring distress and cannot change fate. The pain of the will stems from the limitation of the individual. In infinite time and space, the concepts of individual time and space are relative and insignificant. However, he only lives in the present, and the present is constantly moving towards the end. Faced with its own lack and inevitable outcome, the will is powerless. How can we get rid of it? There is only one way to deny the will. "If you deny the will, the individual's will will will break away from the branch of race and stop its existence." Schopenhauer said that the nirvana of Buddhism is a denial of will and a transcendence of existence. And lovers actively deviate from the path of nirvana and throw themselves into the ocean of desire, which can only make all the pain and death that are about to end continue.
Denying will requires abstinence, condemning one's own body and exposing instinctive tricks. At this point, Schopenhauer inherited the asceticism tendency of Christianity and Buddhism. In order to continue abstinence and resist desire, individuals must constantly abuse their will, so that abstinence is not an accident, but an end in itself. The abuse of the will needs the abuse of the body. It welcomes hunger strike, asceticism, pain and lack, because the will itself is the root of pain, and it must "turn over" and enter another realm. Schopenhauer believes that it is better to be a "conqueror of the world" than to be a "conqueror of the world". This kind of overcoming must be a persistent struggle. There is no way to give up the will to live, realize the freedom of will and reach the realm of "the joy of the soul" This peace will not be disturbed by anyone or anything.
? However, most people can't reach the other side of liberation all their lives, just immersed in the "Mayan curtain", sometimes bored, sometimes painful, silently waiting for their own ending in a tragic fate (more unacceptable than tragedy, as a poor comedian, we often have to bear this tragedy):