By Sharon M. Kaye
Be warned—in your trip via this quantity you are going to stumble upon many real tales. a few will make you snigger, others can make you cry, and all are adequate to completely embarrass the authors. those tales may by no means be allowed to determine the sunshine of day in the event that they didn't open the door to special truths approximately love. The authors converse to you, occasionally of their personal voices, occasionally via discussion, and occasionally via fiction. you are going to realize your self of their struggles and triumphs.
Can the great existence be attained with no real love? what's jealousy? Is it attainable to be a feminist and a heterosexual lover whilst? what's the common sense of the lovers’ quarrel? Is tough intercourse immoral? Is pornography a very good lover’s pal or a foe? What did Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Russell, Beauvoir, and different nice geniuses of Western background need to say approximately what is going on lower than the boardwalk? Is there any freedom in love? Is erotic need a functionality of physique or spirit? what's the top type of love? Is there this kind of factor as a soul mate? you'll have to face those questions and extra if you happen to dare to invite what philosophy can let you know approximately your lover.
all people who has skilled it is familiar with that romantic love actually is a “crazy little thing.” It retains us unsleeping at evening and makes us do issues we might by no means have dreamed we have been able to.
during this quantity twenty-five philosophy professors are accumulated jointly to debate quite a few connections among romantic love and philosophy. they've got left their tweed jackets and spectacles in the back of. it really is as if you've got run into them accidentally at a bar in a few far-off urban the place they're comfy, able to inform you what they honestly think.
might be you will have taken a couple of philosophy periods, or maybe you usually form of desired to. this is often your likelihood to get pleasure from a few deep mirrored image on certainly one of life’s maximum mysteries with none of the scholarly jargon, the tutorial pretenses, or the very unlikely assessments. This quantity will clarify the lasting price in their rules in basic, sleek phrases with no using a unmarried footnote.
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It shouldn’t be too controversial for me to assert that all people need to experience Partridge Family Love. In fact, gobs of data indicate that it’s required for psychological stability. Without it, we become sociopaths, unable to care about other human beings. Nevertheless, Partridge Family Love isn’t enough. Ultimately, the problem with it is that it is just a little on the dull side. I mean, except in apocalyptic times, who wants to spend Saturday night with their parents? As I grew up, I began to search for something more exciting.
In this kind of friendship, as Aristotle so poetically puts it, “two bodies share one soul,” in that they develop a deep desire for one another’s highest good—a good that is concerned with the most true and virtuous kind of life. I think Aristotle’s friendship of virtue, which I more modestly call Pal Love, is the most mature, most self-actualized, and most valuable form of loving one can engage in. Commitment, loyalty, honesty, integrity, trust—these are all qualities crucial to this kind of love.
But, we might ask: if sex is such a thorny moral problem, can even marriage redeem sex? Why does Kant think that marriage can radically transform the cannibalistic nature of sexuality? How Not to Cannibalize Your Lover Kant thinks marriage is the only way to make sex morally permissible because marriage involves a mutual surrender that is both bigger and broader than the surrender involved in sexuality: through marriage, my lover and I give one another our whole person, of which our sexuality is a part.