I think I’ve questioned love for a very long time. I grew up knowing the Disney way, the reality way relating back to people in my life, and from a standpoint of just observation.
My philosophy midterm paper due Monday is challenging me to actually give some kind of a definition for it. The prompt that I made up is as follows:
Diotima and Socrates have different views and accounts of love. What elements of their definitions still exist today and what has changed? Messages about love portrayed in movies evoke strong emotions to their audiences. Throughout the stages of our lives (childhood, adolescense, and adulthood) we develop our own ideas. Do these match up to what love is “supposed” to be?
The three movies I’m using:
Little Manhattan
Can’t Hardly Wait
Definitely, Maybe
Love depends on who, what, why, but most importantly how.
How we love people depends on who we are.
And who we are forming what defines love depends on what.
I was incredibly bored one night and watched the movie “Love Actually” with the author’s commentary. He said when he writes romance, he’ll listen to love songs because it helps him mimic the feelings in his writing. So I think part of love is letting yourself be won over and influenced – like disney characters are, mentally, blank-slated children. When they feel they feel with their whole body. I don’t think that’s really possible for a real person.
Boy I got on a rant there … sorry about that. Anyway, maybe you’ll find it interesting.
Thank you for that sir
sure … unless that’s sarcasm … good luck on the midterm
(also calvin and hobbes has some great lines on love, if you have ever read that … and if you haven’t, you should!)