“Metaphysics of Love”
Love subjects are prominent in literary masterpieces: “We are accustomed to see poets principally occupied with describing the love of the sexes. This, as a rule, is the leading idea of every dramatic work, be it tragic or comic, romantic or classic, Indian or European. It in no less degree constitutes the greater part of both lyric and epic poetry, especially if in these we include the host of romances which have been produced every year for centuries in every civilised country in Europe as regularly as the fruits of the earth. All these works are nothing more than many-sided, short, or long descriptions of the passion in question. Moreover, the most successful delineations of love, such, for example, as Romeo and Juliet, La Nouvelle Hiloise, and Werther, have attained immortal fame.” Classic literature illustrates the idealistic passion which is intrinsic in heterosexual adoration. The emblematic fruits allude to the universality of love subject matters; love amalgamates straightforwardly into innumerable varieties of literature. Classic explorations of love in works such as “Romeo and Juliet, La Nouvelle Hiloise, and Werther” have been contributing in propagating the materiality of passion in individuals’ romantic ambitions. Lovers often benchmark their romances to the ones illustrated in popular literature.
Love is an unqualifiedly hazardous undertaking: “Experience, although not that of everyday, verifies that that which as a rule begins only as a strong and yet controllable inclination, may develop, under certain conditions, into a passion, the ardour of which surpasses that of every other. It will ignore all considerations, overcome all kinds of obstacles with incredible strength and persistence. A man, in order to have his love gratified, will unhesitatingly risk his life; in fact, if his love is absolutely rejected, he will sacrifice his life into the bargain.” Love’s progression is so commanding that individuals may fail to constrain it. Unremitting pursuit of love is attributed to the presuppositions which individuals espouse vis-à-vis the ecstasy of eroticism. Love’s perseverance illustrates the unconscious yearning for indulgence. Being rejected by a lover is very wounding and it is emblematic of the breakdown of a treasured vision.
“Suicide”
Why does Christianity denounce suicide? :“Christianity's inmost truth is that suffering (the Cross) is the real purpose of life; hence it condemns suicide as thwarting this end, while the ancients, from a lower point of view, approved of it, nay, honoured it. This argument against suicide is nevertheless ascetic, and only holds good from a much higher ethical standpoint than has ever been taken by moral philosophers in Europe. But if we come down from that very high standpoint, there is no longer a valid moral reason for condemning suicide.” Christianity ratifies the utter distress of individuals; hence, it would not sponsor the endeavours to bypass the anguish through suicide. Christianity clarifies that humans ought to agonize, due to iniquity, before they can merit admittance to heaven.
Schopenhauer’s primary ideology in “Suicide” is to ratify intentional suicide: “Hume has furnished the most thorough refutation of them in his Essay on Suicide, which did not appear until after his death, and was immediately suppressed by the shameful bigotry and gross ecclesiastical tyranny existing in England... That a purely philosophical treatise originating from one of the greatest thinkers and writers of England, which refuted with cold reason the current arguments against suicide, must steal about in that country as if it were a fraudulent piece of work until it found protection in a foreign country, is a great disgrace to the English nation.” Schopenhauer alludes to Hume’s work to stress that purposeful suicide should not be forbidden. Hume’s argument, which Schopenhauer backs, accentuates that suicide is defensible in some justifiable scenarios. People who endorse suicide should not be subjected to intolerance for ratifying a practice which is popularly repudiated.
