Essays On Love

Love is the most important thing in our lives

Love is the most important thing in our lives. «Only the soul that loves is happy», wrote Goethe. And Vitor Hugo: «The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved».

But wrongly, we usually reduce it to parental love or to romantic love, forgetting the many other forms it may assume. There are indeed a very diverse set of loves: the love of friends, of life, of ideas, of music, of God...

Literature and Love? See:
What's Love? Great authors definitions
Love in Literature: Dante, Plato and Shakespeare
Abelard and Heloise Love
Friendship in Literature and Philosophy

Love is dangerous, and a source of evil and hate

Yes. Love is the most important thing in our lives. But love is also dangerous, and a source of evil and hate.

There is the love of money and the love of power, which might be a powerful source of evil. And there are people who love cruelty...

And more often, we hate what opposes our loves and our ideas (of God, of nation, of what is good, of what is bad...). And those hates are often a source of wars and bloody or painful conflicts. In other words: love may become a source of evil. Love is indeed very dangerous... Love is a source of many contemporary terrorisms and political and religious persecutions (see: Love, Hate and Evil, or Love and Reason, or Love and Humility, or Quiz: Nazis Loves and Hates)


1 – WHAT’S LOVE
What's love
Love is sublime or a chimera and a chaos?
Love doesn't involve only people
Love is nothing, love is all
Love cycles: time to war, time to love
Love, time, habit
Love and art
To make a mock of love

Quiz on What's Love
Quiz: Love is a game and madness
Quiz: Nazis Loves and Hates


2 – ROMANTIC LOVE
Love is illusion, madness
Beauty and love
Love is a game
Big and small loves
Love and fidelity
We all are Heloises and Abelards
Love and Literature: Dante, Shakespeare, Plato

3 – BROTHERLY LOVE 
Saint Luke brotherly love
Solving wrongs via love
We can’t command love
Machiavelli, Human Nature, Politics and Love
To love and to suffer: an explanation for our lack of love
Acts with and without love
Alzheimer Poem

4 - MEN, WOMEN, MARRIAGE AND FEMINISM 
Love, Sex War and Human Natures
Feminine Revolt and Complaints
Traditional Male Thought over Women
Prison and Desillusion about Marriage
Opression over Women and Male Genes
Feminine Love and Seduction Games
Male Chauvinism and Radical Feminism
Marriage as an Irrational Decision  
Marriage as the Love's Grave

5 – LOVE AND SEX  
Love, pleasure, sin, decadence
Love, sex and humour
Libertine and Romantic love

6 – LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
Friendship, shared joy, love, conviviality
Treason, False Friends and Family
Friendship, lovers and sex
Friendship in Literature and Philosophy

7 – LOVE, HATE AND EVIL
Evil, Indifference, Cruelty and Egoism
Hitler and Nazis' were surrounded by their Loves
Love Nourishes Evil and Hate
Genocides and Slaughters and Love and Genes
Love and the Dreams of Better Societies

8 – IDEAS OF LOVE
We Love to Create Ideas that Drive Our Lives
Reality is a Product of Our Ideas. We are Slaves of Them

9 – LOVE AND TRUTH
Men Love Trivialities, banalities, lies, common sense...
Press, news and lack of Love to truth, humility, tolerance...
Humans love myths and dreams, not the true knowing
We should lie in the name of Love and Wisdom.

10 – LOVE AND SCIENCE
Love and the interests of Genes
Love, Passions, Homicide, Infidelity... Are Driven by Genes
Robots, Androids, Love and Human Future
Beautiful and Ugly Girls

11 – LOVE AND HISTORY
Hitler's Paranoia, Love, Palestinians and Jews
Paths of History, Contingency, Chance, Necessity and Love

12 – LOVE AND POLITICS
Love, Sex, Politics - Politicians exhibitionism, sexual power
Politicians Love Humanity, Public Causes
Patriotism, Nationalism and Citizens Love to Motherland
Love and Politics - Politicians' rhetoric

13 – LOVE IN OUR SOCIETIES
Love and egoism
Love in our societies
Greediness, reason and love

15 – LOVE AND VALUES
Revolt, disbelieving, unhappiness and the Medicine of Love
Humility and Love: Refusing Vanity, Pride and Hate
Errors and Faults vs Love, Mercy and Justice
Love and Pride of our Nation, Deeds and Race
Crimes, Wars, Evils and Lack of Tolerance
The Intense Love to God, Ideas or Causes Feeds Hate

16 – LOVE AND ETHICS
Human ethics and the insensibility of other species
Love and cruelty concerning animals
Militarist and pacifist ethics
 

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