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Reacting to Romanticism: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard

Professor Kozlowski Lectures

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The Evolution of Love and Sexuality

This chapter explores the development of the belief that humans are selfish and negative, and how rationality was seen as the solution to overcome this selfishness. It discusses the relationship between love and sexuality, the shift in cultural perceptions of love, and the influence of philosophers like Schopenhauer on the understanding of love as driven by instinct and reproduction.

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