: Even in the 21st century, love remains a mystery. Here are three ways philosophy can help #IndiaNEWS Love can seem a primal force, an intoxicating mix of desire, care, ecstasy and jealousy hard-wired

Even in the 21st century, love remains a mystery. Here are three ways philosophy can help #IndiaNEWS
Love can seem a primal force, an intoxicating mix of desire, care, ecstasy and jealousy hard-wired into our hearts. The polar opposite of philosophy’s measured rationality and theoretical speculations.Yet if you take any topic in the world, and keeping asking deep questions of it, you will ultimately wind up doing philosophy. Love is no different.Indeed, many famous philosophers – Kant, Aristotle, De Bouvier – wrote about love and how it fitted into their larger theories of human reason, excellence and freedom.Unsurprisingly, their historically-situated views tended to mirror the culturally valued types of love in their time. The Greeks eulogised the love of friendship. Scholars in the middle ages ruminated on the love of God. With the Renaissance, romantic love moved centre stage.Today, philosophers continue to interrogate love and draw practical lessons about how we can approach it in our own lives.What is love?Think of the ways in which we distinguish love from other similar qualities. We can easily imagine someone saying: “It’s not love – they’re just friends.??? Or “It’s not love – it’s just infatuation.???Ideally, an account of love would distinguish it from (on the one hand) liking, friendship, respect, admiration and care, and (on the other) lust, infatuation and obsession. Love seems deeper than and different from these.Perhaps we also need to consider whether we use the...Read more

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