title: [The sociobiological ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer].
abstract: Starting from the basic ideas of sociobiology we prove that Schopenhauer, in his "Metaphysics of Sexual Love", has to pass for a precursor of sociobiological thinking. Several consequences of this parallel are discussed: The quest for strategic principles of organismic growth and evolution as a positive characteristic of both approaches--the hypothesis of a dominant genetic determination of human behaviour as an outcome of a typical bourgeois view of mankind connecting Schopenhauer and sociobiologists--the necessity of taking into consideration biological predispositions of flexible (learned) behaviour as elements of sociobiological models enjoying the same rights as genetical ones--the utility of Schopenhauer's natural philosophy for the purpose of complementing historical knowledge of many disciplines (also psychology).
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: F U
authors.initials: FU
authors.lastname: Maass
mesh_terms: D001695:Biology / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy / Q000266:history*; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Soziobiologische Ideen bei Arthur Schopenhauer.