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Apr 8, 2005 · I love doing philosophy (or being a father). I love my dog (or cat). I love my wife (or mother or child or friend). However, what is meant by ‘love’ differs from case to case. (1) may be understood as meaning merely that I like this thing or activity very much.
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The idea of romantic love initially stems from the Platonic tradition that love is a desire for beauty-a value that transcends the particularities of the physical body. For Plato, the love of beauty culminates in the love of philosophy, the subject that pursues the highest capacity of thinking.
Jan 1, 2013 · Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. Haruki Murakami in Kafka on the Shore: Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover.
Mar 5, 2020 · This book explores the philosophical views on the meaning of love. The text explores a variety of topics used to define love, including attraction, relationship satisfaction, emotional, and ethical considerations.
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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.
Feb 6, 2017 · The first holds that the ordinary concept of true love picks out love that is highly prototypical. The second, that it picks out love that is especially good or valuable. The third, that people distinguish between psychological states that are “real” or not, and that it picks out love that is real.
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Feb 6, 2017 · After motivating this project, the chapter discusses and rejects a view according to which love is a certain kind of pattern or process, and then argues that love should be conceived of as a certain kind of state, namely a dispositional state.
