Questions tagged [love]
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How can a person truly love another if hard determinism is true?
I have a wife and two kids. According to hard determinism, I was determined since time began moving forward to marry my wife and have my children. Every moment we share together was also predetermined, and my affection for them is a chemical…
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Falling in love conditionally
The question that is nagging me is that if romantic love happens after an individual achieves a certain degree of financial success or any condition that may be desirable, is such a love more love like, than love that has very few conditions? I…
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Marsilio Ficino' commentary on the Symposium on Love guidance
Is Marsilio Ficino's commentary on the Symposium on Love a good book to read alongside the Symposium for someone who is reading the Platonic dialogue?
Does it give a good understanding of the Symposium that isn't too focused on the Christian ideas…
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If we are satisfied with ourselves, then what's the point of an another relationship?
A satisfied singledom is the bedrock to a long satisfied love life.
After reading this quote it really got me thinking. And one of the main questions I encountered was the following. If I really want a relationship I have to start loving myself…
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Epictetus quote on Love and Wise
"If someone is incapable of distinguishing good things from bad and
neutral things from either – well, how could such a person be capable
of love? The power to love, then, belongs only to the wise man."
This is a quote from Greek Stoic philosopher…
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What philosopher regarded the end and purpose of human life to be in relationships with other individuals?
I remember in my undergrad being taught about some philosopher who regarded the whole end and purpose of human existence to be primarily that of relationship with other people. I dont remember if he used the word love, but it had the implication of…
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What philosophers believed marriage is man's ultimate perfection?
It seems Plato believed this when he says, through Aristophanes in the Symposium:
After the division [by Zeus,] the two parts of man, each desiring his other half, came together, and throwing their arms about one another, entwined in mutual…
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Where does this Alan Watts audio clip come from?
I'm trying to locate the source of an Alan Watts quote/audio clip that has been used in numerous YouTube edits. It is referenced in some places as the 'Falling Into Love' lecture, but there is no such lecture listed on the Alan Watts website, or…
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Did Ancient Greeks believed that only God can give Agape Love, the unconditional love for everyone?
Ancient Greeks defined love as 6 different types.
Eros, Philia, Ludus, Agape, Pragma, Philautia.
Agape love is Unconditional Love.
Can God only give Agape Love, the unconditional love for everyone?
Or was it the belief of the Christians that only…
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Suicide versus the Will to Live
Schopenhauer's idea of Will to Live was the idea that love is a tool used by life to reproduce children. He then said that people with whom we are likely to make the most "well-balanced" children and we are driven towards are usually the kind of…
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Can philosophy say that "love" doesn't exist?
There must be much for a philosopher to say about such a vivid manifold phenomenon as "love"
There are said to be different forms of love: agape (universal love), philautia (self-love), storge (familial love), philia (platonic love), eros (romantic…
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In Plato's Symposium, why is Diotima a woman?
Excuse the odd title - what I mean is: Diotima is the sole woman that has her say in Plato's dialogues. There are a multitude of opportunities in which he could've let a woman speak, but it never happens except here. But why here?
If one doesn't…
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Was Socrates hypocritical about Eros?
Taken at face value, in the Symposium and Phaedrus gay love that remains unconsummated is regarded as the highest form of love between humans men.
It makes the soul rise upward to the form of beauty, which we once before our birth witnessed in the…
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Value from arbitrary restriction vs value from sharing
Let's take a simplifying example to illustrate two opposite worldviews:
Some people see value in intangible things when access to these things is restricted as if sharing was leading to a value loss: for example, people who will keep things private…
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Are love and sexual attraction completely unrelated?
The philosophy of sexuality is a more recent development. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy says:
Among the many topics explored by the philosophy of sexuality are procreation, contraception, celibacy, marriage, adultery, casual sex,…
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