All Schopenauer's Answers about human relationships
"One must have no idea how the world works if one thinks one can become popular with one's wit and insight."
The best-selling series "Selected» of Acid Publications is enriched with seven new titles, seven new small books, big thoughts, which come to be added to the previous 16 titles.
"Our Relationship with Others" is an excerpt from the collection of essays-philosophical reflections of Arthur Schopenhauer, which was published in 1851 under the title Parerga und Paralipomena.
He himself Schopenhauer he described this collection as "incomparably more popular than anything else so far", while they thematically complement perhaps his most famous work, "the world as will and performance".
"Our Relationship with Others" is published as an indispensable point of reference both for scholars of the great German idealist and for the history of philosophy itself in general.
Why is it better to lower our level a little in our interactions with others? How does one explain the fact that people are not interested in anything if it does not touch them personally? Why are indulgence and sincere appreciation in the face of someone we have just met not the best advisors?
What is kindness, after all, and why do we do ourselves a favor when we judge others?
In his well-known serious and not at all diplomatic style, Arthur Schopenhauer offers to provide answers to these and many more questions, provided of course that we desire contact with other people even though "in fact we should be very happy if we have nothing to do with them".
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