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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

True Love (Section 13)(Final Report)




Love is defined as the most powerful emotion a human being can experience. It will be easy to understand live, if the person knows that that the word “Love” is not the same one’s feeling of love. Ancients Greeks used seven words to describe the seven different types of love: storge (natural affection or the love you share with your family), philia (the love that you have for friends), eros (sexual and erotic desire kind of love), agape (unconditional love or divine love), ludus (playful love, like childish lover or flirting), and philautia (the love of self).
A person feels different emotions for the different types of love. The brain has a major rule that controls both feelings and the expressive language. The right side of the brain controls feelings while the left side controls the language. When a person says “I love you” many times a day, they lose the sense of excitement that they usually get. And this goes to the fact that the left side of the brain doesn’t get fully activated.
Love is some sort of practice. People don’t recommend the use of the word “Love” for every expression, because it loses its value. For example: instead of “I love chocolate”, use “I enjoy chocolate”. Another solution that lovers found very effective is choosing words that are associated with good memories. As the word gets used again, it brings the same good feelings of these good moments. Many people say that true love only starts when the interaction between the two partners is based on truth, trust, and respect.
Many philosophers talked about love and they had different perspectives about it. Plato believed in the eros type of love. He said, “He whom love touches not walks in darkness”. While Aristotle thought that that philia transforms eros from a lust for possession into an impulse. He also believed that it is important for lovers to be best friends first before they move to a relationship. Nietzsche, as well, explains in his book that the right name for true love is friendship. He explained that if erotic love can be transformed into the best kind of friendship, then it can open up a blissful life of shared understanding.
Socrates added a different factor to love. He added madness. He said, “although madness can be an illness, it can also be the source of man’s greatest blessings.”
Diotima had a unique opinion about what people should love exactly. He justified that first, a person should be taught to love one beautiful body, so they can come up with the fact that there are many beautiful bodies on this planet, and thus that it is foolish to love just one beautiful body. Then the person will learn that the beauty of the soul is superior to the beauty of the body.
Discussion Questions: 
1) Do you believe in love?
2) What is your own definition of true love?
3)Is love a part of our fate (soulmate)? if not, how do we find that we fell in love?
Quiz Questions:
1) who said “He whom love touches not walks in darkness”?
2)  What factor did Socrates add to love to make it better?

 Links to posts I commented on
https://cophilosophy.blogspot.com/2019/11/philosophy-of-design.html?
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https://cophilosophy.blogspot.com/2019/09/cosmic-philosophy-section-13.html?
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  1. Anonymous11:33 AM CST

    3)Is love a part of our fate (soulmate)?
    I do not really buy into the concept of a soul mate. I think there are potential people that can be a lover for someone. It just depends on timing, location, and situation to find one of those people. On whether fate led you to them, that is up to your interpretation.
    - Cody Maness Section 11

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    1. Madona Kozman4:00 PM CST

      Section 13
      So if you meet your person by chance, you wouldn't think that it was all planned before you were born?

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  2. ray keopf11:48 AM CST

    I believe in love, but I also believe we put a false image with love. We call our 2 month relationship love, and then it ends. I think true love in a sense of relationship is more than just one type. It's a love for the person physically and mentally. Genuinely more concerned about their life and future than yourself. I don't think we see a lot of that these days. 11

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  3. Madona Kozman3:59 PM CST

    Section 13
    I totally agree with you about how rare true love is these days. I believe that love comes after seeing the other person's imperfections and falling in love with them!

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  4. Heather Faulkner8:50 PM CST

    Section 12

    I think that love is a real thing, but we have an unhealthy view of what it actually means. I think that people tend to confuse infatuation with love, which has lead to unrealistic expectations for what relationships look like long term. I don't think that love is something that just happens to people, or that there are soul mates. I think love is both a natural process, but that longterm love also takes work. This is an interesting and important topic, I enjoyed your blog!

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