Why we do love?
The philosophy behind the reason for love.
Romantic love is beautiful, intoxicating, heartbreaking, and soul-crushing often all of these at the same time. Does love makes our life meaningful or is it an escape from our loneliness and suffering? Is love a disguise for our sexual desire or a trick of biology to make us procreate? If romantic love has a purpose neither science nor psychologist was discovered it, yet but throughout history, some of our most respected philosophers of the world put forward some interesting theories?
Love makes us whole again
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato explores the idea that we love to become complete in his symposium he wrote the following stories. Humans were once creatures with four arms, four legs, and two faces. One day they anger God and Zeus slice them all in two, since then every person has been missing half of him or herself. Love is the logging of finding a soulmate make us feel whole again or at least that was Plato believe.
Love tricks us into having babies
A German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer believed that love is based on sexual desire what’s the love cues illusion. He suggested that we love because our desire leads us to believe that another person will make us happy. But we are sorrowly mistaken. Nature is tricking us to procreating in loving fusion we seek is consummated to our children. When our sexual desires are satisfied we are thrown back into tormented existences. And we succeed only in maintaining species and procreating the cycle of human tragedy.
Love is an escape from our loneliness
According to the British philosopher, Bertrand Russell proposed that we love to quench our physical and psychological desire. Humans are designed to procreate but without the ecstasy of passionate love and sex is unsatisfying. Fear of the cold cruel world tempts build a hard shell to protect and isolate ourselves. Loves, light intimacy, the warmth helps us to overcome our fear of the world. And engage more abundantly in life and love reaches our whole being making it the best things in our life.
Love is a misleading affliction
Gautama Buddha is known as the enlightened one, Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires. Yet our passionate cravings are defects, an attachment even romantic love is a great source of suffering. Luckily Buddha discovered the eight full paths, a sort of program extinguishing the fire of Desire so that we can reach Nirvana (an enlightened state of peace, clarity, wisdom, and compassion).
Love let us reach beyond ourselves
The French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir proposed that love is the desire to integrate with another and that influences our life with meaning. However, she would less concerned about why we love and more interested in how we can love better. She shows that the problem with traditional romantic love is can be so captivating that we are tempted to make it over the only reason for being, yet dependence on others to justify our existence easily leads to boredom. To avoid this trap, she advised loving authentically which is more like a great friendship. overs support each other in discovering themselves, reaching beyond themselves, and enriching their life and world together.
We might never know why we fall in love, we can be certain that it will be an emotional roller coaster ride, it is scary and exhilarating, it makes us sufferer and makes us sorrow, maybe we lose ourself or you will find yourself, it might be hard breaking or it might be the best thing in our life will we dear to find out it.
