WHY WE DO LOVE?

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

We love because it's a way to feel ourselves alive. It's worth and for that reason also it can be heart-breaking and complicated. People needs love to be happy, it's a part of the happiness.

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

intoxicating            2

heart-breaking      3

beautiful                 1

soul crushing        4

3. What are the 5 Philosophers mentioned?

Plato.

Schopenhauer.

Russell.

Buddha.

Beauvoir.

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 our loneliness."

Buddha: "Love is a misleading affliction."

Beauvoir: "Love lets us reach beyond ourselves."

5. Vocabulary work. Which Philosopher says what?

Dependence on another means boredom and power games               Beauvoir.

We succeed in perpetuating human species and perpetuating human tragedy        Schopenhauer.

Quench our physical and psychological desires      Rusell.

It enriches our whole being together                           Russell. 

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              Beauvoir.