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In this blog post we’ve researches all the great philosophers on love, and pulled together the top love quotes by philosophers whether written or spoken: “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
- Shakespeare Could Always Write a Great Love Quote
(As You Like It – Act 3, Scene 5) 11. ‘Love is a smoke and...
- Shakespeare Could Always Write a Great Love Quote
Feb 14, 2017 · The Humean: “Marriage is neither a matter of fact nor a relation of ideas, so I commit it to the flames.” The Platonist: “As a philosopher-king candidate, I cannot marry you, for our selves and our offspring belong to all communally, while marriage is a private and selfish thing.” The Heraclitean: “Can I marry you?
Feb 14, 2016 · The Humean: “Marriage is neither a matter of fact nor a relation of ideas, so I commit it to the flames.” The Platonist: “As a philosopher-king candidate, I cannot marry you, for our selves and our offspring belong to all communally, while marriage is a private and selfish thing.” The Heraclitean: “Can I marry you?
One of the most provocative analyses of love ever produced is to be found in the writings of the Danish Existential philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. In a book entitled Works of Love, published in Copenhagen in 1847, Kierkegaard — then thirty-four years old — proposed a theory which deliberately upset every leading idea that his own age (in ...
1. Soren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard grappled with love most prominently in Works of Love, writing about agape, or unconditional love. For Kierkegaard, the Christian conception of agape is the only true love, for Christian love reveals “that it has within itself the truth of the eternal.”
- Jake Goldman
However, not many modern philosophers have written about individual emotions, such as the feeling of romantic love. Yet it would seem a subject ripe for analysis of the kind that Phenomenologists do – to examine in a detailed, neutral way what it is like to be in love.
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Feb 13, 2017 · As a philosopher, I am always amazed how Plato’s account here, uttered by Aristophanes, uncannily evokes our very modern view of love. It is a profoundly moving, beautiful, and wistful...
