TBB199Y1 Lecture 6: TBB199 6 - Love as Union - Irving Singer and Rainer Riike and Robert Nozick
20 Apr 2016
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260, so powerful and instinctive an emotion can never have been recently evolved. But our ideas about our emotions, and the esteem in which we hold them, differ very much from one generation to another; and literature is a record of ideas far more than of primordial psychological facts. Human nature in itself an interaction between mental constructs acquired through patterns of accumulated experience, individual or communal, and biological mechanisms genetically programmed. 261, there is one point on which realist and idealist accounts of love tend to agree. They usually begin with the loneliness of man. 262, idealist thinking generally considers [that] lovers are one, and in some sense always have been. Throughout all possible separations, and despite the blind interference of external forces, they are really indissoluble. 263, realist interprets as an overlapping or wedding of interests rather than a merging of personalities.
