What is love? (School assignment, help please)

Originally posted by Darth Extecute
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 😮 😛

I've always seen love as the need/want for close companionship with another due to their personality, looks etc etc.

Your brain is flooded with dopamine, serotonine and norepinephrine. They work like amphetamine, they stimulate the brain's pleasure center. Side effects are increased heart-rate, loss of appetite/sleep, excitement.

Just tried a different point of view. 🙂

Originally posted by Drusilla
Your brain is flooded with dopamine, serotonine and norepinephrine. They work like amphetamine, they stimulate the brain's pleasure center. Side effects are increased heart-rate, loss of appetite/sleep, excitement.

Just tried a different point of view. 🙂

Nice point of view 😄

Plato
(Freud)
FROMM (he wrote an entire book about the different kinds of love)

Just the ones from the top of my head.. It is probably too late already anyway. Sorry.

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