- When the French author, Stendhal, finally sees Paris, how does he react? What does Bernard Reginster mean by “the elusiveness of fulfillment”?
- What is an essentially perfectible good? Does this explain the elusiveness of fulfillment? What are apparent desires and conditional desires? Do they explain the
experience of boredom? Explain.
- Schopenhauer makes three observations about boredom. What are these three observations? According to Schopenhauer, what is boredom?
- According to Schopenhauer, need-based desires will never give us fulfillment. Why not?
- According to Nietzsche, what does boredom tell us about ourselves? What is the Will to Power? What is Nietzsche’s New Happiness?