tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post5107631228394798070..comments2023-11-03T07:07:55.456-05:00Comments on CoPhilosophy: Group 2 Section 8 Final Blog Post: Alyssa DegenhardtPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-5212996168474698472015-05-05T13:53:52.535-05:002015-05-05T13:53:52.535-05:00That non-narcissistic form of self-love is really ...That non-narcissistic form of self-love is really an expansion of one's self-concept, isn't it? To love is to become a larger person. <br /><br />What about those philosophers, Buddhists and Humeans and others, who deny the substantial reality of the self? I think they become larger through love as well. Some of this is semantics, but a lot of it is just the ancient wisdom of finding something larger in life to identify with than the mere travails of a single skin-bounded organism whose life in any case is over in a flash of cosmic time.<br /><br />My daughter the film student announced in her latest mini-review that love is her favorite topic. I'll have to show her your post, and ask her if she's read Plato's Symposium.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com