Do we need it If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has yet discovered it? But during the course of history, some of our most respected philosophers have put forward some intriguing theories. Love makes us full again Ancient Greek philosopher Plato discovered the idea that we love so that we can become perfect.
In his "Symposium", he wrote about a dinner party at which Aristophanes, a comic playwright, reunited the guests with the following story: Humans were creatures with four hands, four legs, and two faces at a time. One day, he offended the gods, and Zeus cut them all in two. Since then, each person is remembering his or her own half. Love is the craving to find a soulmate who will make us feel whole again, or, at least, what Plato believed a drunken comedian would say at a party.
Love trick us into having children. Much later, the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer stated that love based on sexual desire was an unstable illusion. He suggested that we make love because our desires make us believe that another person will please us, but we are mistakenly mistaken. Nature is trying to seduce us, and the loving fusion we crave is pervading our children.
When our sexual desires are satisfied, we return to our tormented existence, and we only succeed in sustaining the species and destroy the cycle of human intoxication. Sounds like someone needs a hug. Love escapes our loneliness. According to Nobel laureate British philosopher Bertrand Russell, we love to quench our physical and psychological desires. Designed to buy humans, but without the ecstasy of passionate love, sex is unsatisfactory.
Our fear of a cold, cruel world attempts to make us hard shells to protect and isolate ourselves. The joy, intimacy, and warmth of love help us overcome our fear of the world, avoid our solitary shells, and engage in life more abundantly. Love enriches our entire existence, making it the best thing in life. Love is a deceptive sorrow. Siddhartha Gautama, better known as the Buddha, or the enlightened one, might have made some interesting arguments with Russell.
The Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to fulfill our base desires. Nevertheless, our emotional cravings are to blame, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of sorrow. Fortunately, the Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a kind of program to extinguish the fire of desire so that we could reach the enlightened kingdom of peace, clarity, wisdom, and compassion.
The novelist Cao Xucin portrays the Buddhist sentiment that romantic love is one of China's great classical novels are silly, "Dream of the Red Chamber." In a subplot, Jia Rui falls in love with Xi-Feng who betrays and humiliates her. Resisting and hating the feelings of love tear him apart, so a Taoist gives him a magical mirror that can heal him until he appears in front of him. But of course, he looks in front of it.
He looks at Xi-Feng. His soul enters the mirror and is dragged to death in chains of iron. Not all Buddhists think of romantic and erotic love in this way, but the moral of this story is that such affiliations avoid witchcraft as well as witchcraft. Love lets us reach beyond ourselves. Let end on a slightly positive note. The French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir proposed that love is the desire to integrate with another and that it affects our lives with meaning.
However, she was less concerned about why we love and is more interested in how we can love better. He noticed that the problem with traditional romantic love is that it can be so captivating, that we consider it the only reason for our being. Nevertheless, dependence on another easily becomes a game of boredom and power to justify our existence. To avoid this trap, Bevoire advises loving authentically, which is like a great friendship. Lovers in pursuit of themselves, supporting each other, reaching beyond themselves, and enriching their lives and worlds together.
Although we may never know why we fall in love, we can be certain that it will be an emotional rollercoaster ride. It is scary and exhilarating. It makes us suffer and makes us high. Maybe we lose ourselves. Maybe we find ourselves. It can be heartbreaking, or it can be the best work in life. Would you dare to find out?
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