Why do we love?

1. Discuss. Why do we love? It’s heart-breaking and complicated most of the times yet do we need it at all?
Because we're human. (I guess)

2. How does the video define love? Put the words in order.
beautiful-intoxicating-heart-breaking- soul crushing
intoxicating
heart-breaking
beautiful
soul crushing

3. What are the 6 Philosophers mentioned?
Platon
Schopenhauer
Russell
Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha"
Cao Xuequin
Simone de Beauvoir

4. Watch again and write each Philosopher’s view on love.
Platon: "Love makes us whole again." He explored the idea that we love in order to become complete.

Schopenhauer: "Love tricks us into having babies." He maintained that loved based in sexual desire was a voluptuous illusion.

Russell: "Love is escape from our loneliness." He says that we loved in order to quench our physical and psychological desires.

Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha": "Love is a misleading affliction" He says that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires.

Cao Xuequin: "Dream of the Red Chamber" He says that the romantic love is folly in one of China's greatest classical novels.

Simone de Beauvoir: "Love lets us reach beyond ourselves" He proposed that love is the desire to integrate with another and that it infuses our lives with meaning.


5. Vocabulary work. Which Philosopher says what?

1) Dependance on another means boredom and power games: Simone de Beauvoir

2) We succeed in perpetuating human species and perpetuating human
tragedy: Shopenhauer

3) Quench our physical and psychological desires: Russell

4) It enriches our whole being together: Russell

5) Attachments are a great source of suffering: Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha"

6) Love is the longing to find a soulmate who makes us feel whole again: Platon

7) Love infuses our life with meaning: Simone de Beauvoir