PHILOS 2ZZ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: J. David Velleman, Anne Carson, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
16 Dec 2016
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Intensity of engagement and the difference between friendship love and romantic love. We tend to think there are different loves . Philia: the love for friends, without physical passion (might include friendship and political community, brotherly love) Eros: intense, passionate desire (but not necessarily sexual)/now used for the word erotic /could mean love for beauty (plato) Not always distinct for the greek, but they run into each other. Teresa of avila, the life of teresa of jesus, p. 274-75. Reduced eros, or the erotic, to something that is distinctly sexual. His main argument: love may or may not last forever, but its intensity is enhanced by our mortality. This tells us something about the nature of love o o. To ask about the nature of love is to ask how to define it. It is the intensity of the engagement in love that binds us to others a. Takes definitions of the nature of romantic love, and examines them i.
