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Apr 8, 2005 · The issue here is not merely that we can offer explanations of the selectivity of my love, of why I do not love schmucks; rather, at issue is the discernment of love, of loving and continuing to love for good reasons as well as of ceasing to love for good reasons. To have these good reasons seems to involve attributing different values to you now rather than formerly or rather than to someone ...
The motivation for thinking that love is the answer. As has been argued, love serves as the driving force for the theist, atheist, and the more cosmic thinker. Love is hailed as the meaning of life because, as the crux of this paper has shown, it serves as a hallmark to what it means to live.
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Philosophy of Love. This article examines the nature of love and some of the ethical and political ramifications. For the philosopher, the question “what is love?” generates a host of issues: love is an abstract noun which means for some it is a word unattached to anything real or sensible, that is all; for others, it is a means by which our being—our self and its world—are irrevocably ...
Aug 1, 2024 · If you understand love purely in terms of the feelings it stirs up, the love is over once these feelings disappear, change or get put on hold by something like a move or a new school. On the other hand, if love is a bond you choose and practice, it will take much more than the disappearance of feelings or life changes to end it.
Another view, held by Spinoza, is that love elevates us up to an expansive love of all nature. For him, an act of love is an ontological event that ruptures existing being and creates new being. However, since love is an ontological event, creation of new being also coincides with different concepts throughout history, since each period brings ...
Jan 1, 2013 · When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. James Baldwin in The Price of the Ticket: Collected Non-fiction, 1948-1985: 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.
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Sep 25, 2023 · Albert Camus has the reputation of someone who enjoyed being in love. Robert Royal reports that “Camus wrote to five separate women the. week before he died, telling each that she was ‘the ...
