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The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life

Saunders, T. Bailey
Schopenhauer, Arthur

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 1544873301
ISBN13: 9781544873305
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 25 2017
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education. What a man has: that is, property and possessions of every kind. How a man stands in the estimation of others: by which is to be understood, as everybody knows, what a man is in the eyes of his fellowmen, or, more strictly, the light in which they regard him. This is shown by their opinion of him; and their opinion is in its turn manifested by the honor in which he is held, and by his rank and reputation. The differences which come under the first head are those which Nature herself has set between man and man; and from this fact alone we may at once infer that they influence the happiness or unhappiness of mankind in a much more vital and radical way than those contained under the two following heads, which are merely the effect of human arrangements. Compared with genuine personal advantages, such as a great mind or a great heart, all the privileges of rank or birth, even of royal birth, are but as kings on the stage, to kings in real life.

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