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Love without will is sentimental and experimental, whereas will without love is manipulative. Only by remaining open to the influence of others can we likewise influence them, so love must have an honest purpose, and purpose must be taken with care.
Jul 10, 2016 · Given the existentialist emphasis on concrete personal experience, freedom, authenticity, responsibility, awareness of death, and personal determination of values, it is not surprising that existentialist philosophers should also consider the question of romantic love.
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This chapter shows how existentialist thinking might pertain to the subject of love and desire. Against philosophy for which love may be an emblem for an ideal, existentialism would affirm the concrete particularity of the beloved.
Sep 20, 2022 · Love is a powerful, complex emotional experience that involves changes in your body chemistry, including your neurotransmitters (brain chemicals). It impacts your social relationships in varied...
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Existentialism and Romantic Love. Part I: Love in Real-Life. “The everyday understanding of romantic love is that we fall in love, or we find ‘the one’ and we fall in love, and live happily ever after. The problem is it’s rarely one person, it’s rarely always happy, and it’s rarely ever after...It’s the Disney problem.”
Endorsing both the coherence and flexibility of Fromm’s approach, I nonetheless maintain that the power to love is irreducibly contextual and particular, and that a genuinely existential interpretation of the practice of love will therefore be based on plurality, wisdom, and freedom.
It draws on five existential philosophers to offer insights into what is wrong with our everyday ideas about romantic loving, why reality often falls short of the ideal, sources of frustrations and disappointments, and possibilities for creating authentically meaningful relationships. Back to top.
