Philosophy of Love

Ashton Dennington Section 12 December 7, 2019 What is love? Love is beautiful, love is kind, love is harsh but it’s something we all desire. It’s been around since the beginning of time. Everyone and everything experiences love in some shape form or fashion. We all desire to be with someone that makes us happy because with that person we hope that we can find love. Growing up, my family showed me many different forms of love. Love doesn’t just have to be with emotion, it can be with gifts or just simple acts of kindness. I was taught that you treat others how you want to be treated. Life wasn’t always easy growing up because my parents divorced when I was young, but they showed me that no matter where they ended up, the love they had for their children would stay. The philosophy of love is the field of social philosophy and ethics that attempts to explain the nature of love. Religion plays a big part in our view of love. The number one thing that is true is that we are supposed t