Philos Philosophy Of Love

The text of this book begins with philosophical question such as what is love, can the world survive without it? Probably not! The book is challenging this axiom in stressing that the world is being cocooned into the thought that the Greek word “Eros” meaning “love” is a true love for the modern society. The author, in this respect, has methodically put together a popular thought for pondering without provoking thought.

However people may suggest not another book on love, surely! But, yes, with the difference. The belief is that the Greek word “Eros” (love) which has captured the imagination of people in the modern word is an illusion. This is because, having been entrenched in the dubiety of what this love has to offer mankind shows that, the more knowledge we have about it the better. The instance is that, whilst love is held with the highest regard in the world, described by many people in chapter 2 and 3, since time immemorial, the time has

Philosophy itself , meaning “love of wisdom,” happens to be good example . Philos means loving people, things, or ideas in nonsexual ways. The relationship between a student and teacher can be philial love, as can the attraction to a friend, poem, landscape, mathematical theorem, moral theory, subject of study, professional practice, or social cause. People who love their work have philial relationship with their careers. Do you love and celebrate life itself? This too is philos’ (Marinoff , 2003).

One of the most powerful expressions of philos is friendship and can be stressed thus: In friendship the ego is not dissolved in the other; on the contrary it blossoms. Unlike love, friendship does not declare that one plus one makes one; rather, that one plus one makes two. Each of the two is enriched by and for the other. Elie