Philosophy of Love

Philosophy of Love

What Love Is

On how the romantic ideal obscures love's actual nature, and why we must distinguish between eros, philia, storge, and agape to understand it

Philosophy of Love

Eros Ascending

On how Plato's Symposium reveals love as the ascent toward beauty itself, not the pursuit of another person

Philosophy of Love

Agape and Caritas

On how Christian love inverts the logic of desire, creating value in the beloved rather than responding to it, and Weil's account of attention as its highest form

Philosophy of Love

The Art of Loving

On love as a practice rather than a feeling, and how mistaking it for something that happens to you produces the epidemic of failed modern romance

Philosophy of Love

All About Love

On love as an act of will rather than feeling, and why a culture that mistakes emotion for love cannot practice justice