Concept
Philosophy of love
Overview
Philosophy of love is the field of social philosophy and ethics that attempts to describe the nature of love. It is a branch of humanities that allows us to understand and study the complex structure of compassion by the use of philosophical foundations.
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'Then if this be the nature of love, can you tell me further,' she said, 'what is the manner of the pursuit? what are they doing who show all this eagerness and heat which is called love? and what is the object which they have in view? Answer me.' 'Nay, Diotima,' I replied, 'if I had known, I should not have wondered at your wisdom, neither should I have come to learn from you about this very matter.' 'Well,' she…
Plato, Symposium
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For as when a thing is understood by anyone, there results in the one who understands a conception of the object understood, which conception we call word; so when anyone loves an object, a certain impression results, so to speak, of the thing loved in the affection of the lover; by reason of which the object loved is said to be in the lover; as also the thing understood is in the one who understands; so that when…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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But to judge of this matter truly, we must understand the nature of love and friendship, which may take very different forms. For we speak of friendship, first, when there is some similarity or equality of virtue; secondly, when there is some want; and either of these, when in excess, is termed love.
Plato, Laws
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Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Roger Scruton
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Max Stirner
- Aphrodite
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Hinduism
- Hesiod
- Agape
- Jacques Lacan
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Karl Popper
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Love
- Michel Onfray
- Max Weber
- Marsilio Ficino
- Bell hooks
- Ren (philosophy)
- Augustine of Hippo
- Thomas Aquinas
- Explanation
- Psychology
- Plato
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Catullus
- Courtly love
- Dhammapada
- Lingam
- Sappho
- Stendhal
- Sublimation (psychology)
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Thomas Jay Oord
- Yoni
- Romance
- The Four Loves
- Maithuna
- Notes from Underground (Scruton novel)
- The Art of Loving
- Crystallization (love)
- J. David Velleman
- Martin D'Arcy
- The Examined Life
- All About Love: New Visions
- Philosophy of Love
- Repetition compulsion
- Anders Nygren
- Antonio Caso Andrade