Re: Revision

[Nethera]

To me love is many different things. For example I don't love my sister the same way I would love my boyfriend or girlfriend. To me being in love with someone is when you are comfortable with that person to the point that you aren't nervous to be alone with them because everything feels right when you're with that person.

[Tanya Voytus]

Love is a topic that is not discussed very often in Philosophy because
it defies all our appeals to logic. Probably the most well-known
discussions of love in Philosophy are Plato's dialogues: Symposium and
Phaedrus. Unfortunately, the discussion in Symposium is barely
applicable, since in Plato's opinion, the highest love is that of
wisdom (typical philosopher), and the other love discussed is that one
that exists between a man and his lover. His lover, in those times,
was generally a young boy. Speaking of social standards, while these
homosexual relationships were very acceptable in his time, now we look
upon this traditions as out of the ordinary, or even illegal, since
most of the time the boys would have been under eighteen.

The Phaedrus, too, discusses these two types of love - of wisdom and
of passion - but the latter only is concerned with physical pleasure.
I assume what we are attempting to discuss here is that other type of
love - the one we feel for someone who makes us happy, comfortable,
and excited about life. However, since this is a feeling that lacks
any sort of formula or explanation, philosophy tends to shy away from
attempting to address it.

If, as a class, we want to attempt to tackle this subject, we will do
so in academic pursuit. If there are replies to this post I will
research what currently exists in philosophy that concerns love of
this kind, and we can have a debate or discussion to examine it.