teded: Happy Birthday to French philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir! “Love lets us reach bey
teded: Happy Birthday to French philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir! “Love lets us reach beyond ourselves.” Simone de Beauvoir proposed that love is the desire to integrate with another and that it infuses our lives with meaning. However, she was less concerned with why we love and more interested in how we can love better. She saw that the problem with traditional romantic love is it can be so captivating that we are tempted to make it our only reason for being. Yet, dependence on another to justify our existence easily leads to boredom and power games. To avoid this trap, Beauvoir advised loving authentically, which is more like a great friendship: lovers support each other in discovering themselves, reaching beyond themselves, and enriching their lives and the world, together. From the TED-Ed Lesson Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry - Skye C. Cleary Animation by Avi Ofer -- source link
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