Why doesn the love of wisdom (philosophy) include the wisdom of being a good human being?
This is something I’ve wondered, too, especially because one of my personal favorites (Nietzsche) was such a wreck emotionally and interpersonally. Much of the advice offered by the philosophical “greats” are incredulous today. For example, Schopenhauer said, among other exasperating things, “To disregard is to win regard;” “Make one’s entry into another’s affair in order to leave with one’s own;” “Distrust is the mother of safety;” “If we really think highly of a person we should conceal it from him like a crime” (in “The Schopenhauer Cure” by Irvin Yalom). Such misanthropic opinions at first seem to discredit these thinkers, but only because people place them on a pedestal, as it were. We forget that these men and women were themselves a product of their upbringing and of the current time, not to mention of the human condition itself. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, for example, both had horrendous maternal relationships, and as attachment theory and research has consistently shown, nono
