I am going to work with a school project that is to be completed before friday this week. The work is supposed to be about love and I'm going to write a brief essay about what love is. Quite the complicated assignment I guess, but I found the topic interesting.
I have a problem though... I dont seem to find any famous texts from philosophs about this.. One part of the assignment is to observe what famous philosophs have said about it..
I got the hint with Sigmund Freud and to search for things about him, but I'm having a really hard time..
Therefore my question to you all is;
What is love, what have in history been said about love and do you have any useful links?
Quite embaressing to come here and ask, but I really dont have anything to loose
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Last edited by Nozdormu on May 21st, 2007 at 05:22 PM
Plato' s Symposium is a discussion on the nature of love.
Blaise Pascal wrote Discours sur les passions de l' amour.
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Anyone knows if C.S. Lewis, author of "The Four Loves" is the actual mind behind the different perspectives of love that is mentioned in his book, or if he simply have used the view of others and placed them into a book?
The views from the book is interesting, but I dont think it would be appreciated by my teacher if I came with inaccurate information, saying it is from C.S. Lewis while it's really from someone else
If you love someone, your ready to die for them? What is then my love for my dogs? Because I'm not ready to take their place in heaven if the situation occurs.. I dont think I could take the place of my mother either if the choice of her life or mine would be at stake..
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Last edited by Nozdormu on May 21st, 2007 at 07:39 PM
According to fundamental Christianity, dogs don't have souls and therefore can't even be considered for entry. A lot of people say "but you get anything you want in Heaven," but what they don't realize is that, from a Christian perspective, God is all you really want anyway, and there's plenty of the Big Guy in Heaven.
All bullshit, sure, but what are you gonna do?
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Positively, love is good
Negatively, love is hedonistic
Philosophically, love is pain and joy meshed.
Biologically, love is chemical.
Physically, Love is tender.
Emotionally, love is blinding.
Spiritually, love is bliss
And mentally/psychologically, love is the ultimate form of unselfishness.
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Love is in it's most basic form the reaction of chemicals in the brain coming from familiarity and attachment.
In a more poetic form love is undefineable by necessicty. If it were possible for us to say what love it on a metaphysical level then love would cease to be love on a certain level. However, I would say that love is a type of desire like most other emotions but that unlike most desires love (real not imagined) must be mutual.
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Love is loving someone without expecting anything in return, no judgments, no restrictions, no limitations. Love is free and unconditional, it' s not mixed with various needs, conditions and demands from your partner.
Love is being honest with yourself at all times, being honest with the other person at all times, telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending. Love is an understanding so complete that you feel as if you are a part of the other person.
Love is the freedom to pursue your own desires while sharing your experiences with the other person, the growth of one individual alongside of and together with the growth of another individual.
Love is giving and taking in a daily situation, and being patient with each other' s needs and desires.
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I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough.
Make poverty history.
Stop aids, keep the promise.
Love never dies. To me, there is no such thing as falling out of love.
What happened is that said person had a very strong liking for the other person or object and then that strong liking began to gradually fade causing said persons/object to drift apart.
Love is immune to anything that seems threatening to it.. That's why there's alot of pain involved in love.
If it were love. It'd still be.
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What is love? (School assignment, help please)
May 21st, 2007 05:07 PM
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.
. It could be incorporated into your conclusion really well though.
