"Why do we love?" questions

1.Discuss. Why do we love? It’s heart-breaking and complicated most of the times yet do we need it at all?

Why do we love? It's a question that is hard to answer, because everybody loves for a different reason, so I cannot give an answer to this question.


2. How does the video define love? Put the words in order

intoxicating-2nd

heart-breaking-3rd

beautiful-1st

soul crushing-4th

3. What are the 5 Philosophers mentioned?

Plato

Arthur Schopenhauer

Bertrand Russell

Siddharta Gautama(Buddha)

Simone de Beauviour

4. Watch again and write each Philosopher’s view on love.

Plato - Love makes us whole, again.
Schopenhauer - Love tricks us into having babies
Russell - Love is escape from out loneliness
Buddha - Love is a misleading affliction
Beauvoir - Love lets us reach beyond ourselves

5. Vocabulary work. Which Philosopher says what?

Dependance on another means boredom and power games-Beauviour

We succeed in perpetuating human species and perpetuating human tragedy-Arhtur Schopenhauer

Quench our physical and psychological desires-Bertrand Russell

It enriches our whole being together-Rusell

Attachments are a great source of suffering-Buddha

Love is the longing to find a soulmate who makes us feel whole again-Plato

Love infuses our life with meaning-Beauviour