Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry

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1.Discuss. Why do we love? It’s heart-breaking and complicated most of the times yet do we need it at all?

I think the human being has the intrinsic necessity to love and to be loved or accept and to be accepted because otherwise we would be anti-social people.

The feeling really durable and important in time is to love, because the love in itself is a temporal state that you live a few times in the life and not always is objective but rather platonic.

Many times can be an unrequited love and then if the person isn't very mature or balanced you can suffer a lot. But as I say, the people more prone to suffer are those they idealize it or they have a pathological dependence on to love and to be loved.

2. How does the video define love? Put the words in order.

intoxicating             

heart-breaking

beautiful

soul crushing

1. Beautiful

2. Intoxicating

3. Heart-breaking

4. Soul crushing

3. What are the 5 Philosophers mentioned?

Platon
Schopenhauer
Russell
Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha"
Simone de Beauvoir

4. Watch again and write each Philosopher’s view on love.

Platon: "Love makes us whole, again". He explored the idea that we love in order to become complete.

Schopenhauer: "Love tricks us into having babies". He maintained that loved based in sexual desire was a voluptuous illusion.

Russell: "Love is escape from our loneliness". He says that we loved in order to quench our physical and psychological desires.

Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha": "Love is a misleading affliction". He says that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires.

Simone de Beauvoir: "Love lets us reach beyond ourselves". She proposed that love is the desire to integrate with another and that it infuses our lives with meaning.

5. Vocabulary work. Which Philosopher says what?

1) Dependance on another means boredom and power games.=Simone de Beauvoir.

2) We succeed in perpetuating human species and perpetuating human   tragedy.=Schopenhauer.

3) Quench our physical and psychological desires.=Russell.

4) It enriches our whole being together.=Russell.

5) Attachments are a great source of suffering.=Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha".

6) Love is the longing to find a soulmate who makes us feel whole again.=Platon.

7) Love infuses our life with meaning.=Simone de Beauvoir.