which he labelled "pederasty" (by which he seemed to mean the whole universe of male-on-male sexual love, although in his place and time, most readers would conceive of such on the model of Athenian pederasty.) I don't believe he himself had any particular inclinations in the BL direction. But he was a widely read and brilliant example of an independent thinker so of course he wasn't going to swallow the "unspeakable vice of the Greeks" notion that was then widespread (although not as widespread then as it would be later in the Victorian era. Many of the most brilliant of Schopenhauer's German contemporaries -- Alexander von Humboldt, Holderlin, Winckelmann -- even Goethe -- were sympathetic to or open BLs). SR |