OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHERS
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".
About the author:
Arthur Schopenhauer, born in Danzig, Germany in 1788, is the philosopher who first proposed the supremacy of the will over the intellect, indirectly challenging all manifestations of idealist philosophy since the time of Plato and catalytically influencing thinkers such as Nietzsche and Freud, however, he became famous mainly because of his pessimism. "Our life is an episode that uselessly disturbs the bliss and tranquility of nothingness," he writes. A student of Eastern philosophies from a young age and notorious for his unyielding even aphoristic style of writing and behavior, after years of traveling to many European countries he spent the last three decades of his life in Frankfurt, in the company of his revolvers and his dog, as his death in 1860.
Also featured in the series are:
- The Opening – Sigmund Freud
- The Prophet – Khalil Gibran
- Literary Eutrapelas – Stephen Leacock
- The Bible of the Chosen – Robert Athlyi Rogers
- Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu
- Responses from the Trenches of the 20thu Century – George Orwell
- Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
- Walking – Henry David Thoreau
- The Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Man – Jerome K. Jerome
- If – Rudyard Kipling
- The Book of Tea – Kakuzo Okakura
- The Book of Five Circles – Miyamoto Musashi
- The Art of War – Sun Tzu
- The Ruler – Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Art of Always Being Right - Arthur Schopenhauer
- The Recognition of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft
