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Ah, romantic love; beautiful and intoxicating, heart-breaking and soul-crushing... often all at the same time! If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has discovered it yet – but over the course of history, some of our most respected philosophers have put forward some intriguing theories. Skye C. Cleary outlines five of these philosophical perspectives on why we love.
Jun 9, 2017 · From the time of Plato and Aristotle onwards, philosophy has offered quite different theories of love. Some of these can be interpreted as “reductionist” in character (Helm 2009, 52); they tend to identify the essence of love exclusively in one specific element in each case – whether it be in concern for a person, in the valuing of a person, or in a certain union of those who love one ...
Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence is a litmus test for an individual’s capacity to affirm life. Your reaction to the prospect of living every single moment of your life over and over again in sequence is, for Nietzsche, a crucial measure of your ability to become who you truly are. I n the penultimate section of The Gay Science, the same book ...
Oct 8, 2014 · Modern philosophers have proposed four different, though perhaps partially overlapping, conceptions of love that are significantly distinct from those of the ancients: (1) love as an emotion, (2) love as a ‘robust concern,’ (3) love as a union, and (4) love as valuing the other. Let us start with the idea of robust concern.
Love as Religion. Simon May. Simon May argues that love has taken on the role of a new god in Western thought. One of the strange things about asking the question “what is love?” today is that many people in the Western world are uncomfortable even with the attempt to define it. A philosophy of love, according to this view, is a ...
The 4 core branches of philosophy. W hile philosophical inquiry can be (and has been) applied to virtually any subject, one traditional picture organizes philosophy into four core branches. These are the branches of epistemology (the study of knowledge), metaphysics (the study of reality), value theory (the study of ethics and values), and ...
Feb 27, 2015 · Think of our relations to other people—our family, our friends, our communities. We love and care for others in this cruel world, and perhaps that’s why we continue to live. That’s what gives existence meaning. The problem here is that everyone we know and love will die some day, and some of them will suffer tremendously before that happens.
