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Love As If

Love As If

In the essay “love as if” John Shand claims that is contradictory, bipolar, and irrational. Love is important because it is a way life acquires meaning as stated by John Shand “Perhaps the safest conclusion we may draw about love is as follows, and it is one that enables us to have a working concept of love in our lives and yet embraces the paradoxical conceptual content of love”. Love is something we want and something we don’t understand over time love has become a more complex subject. Without meaning and passion; there is no love.#1
He breaks down love into two issues. The first issue is that love is normative which he defines as rational. Shand claims “Love is ...

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be the free choice of the individual, but we often try to give justification for love; because of that love is a lot more complex than it seems.#1b
Love is dipolar, and reasonable; Shand claims. He compares freewill and love because normative cannot exist where there is no free choice. He adds that love is reasonable by saying “no beloved wants to hear that they are loved merely reasonably well or in a reasonable way”. Love is something that we want to be normative and non-rational that’s why they contradict and cause conflicts. Shand concludes that love is paradoxical and that people think of love in a contradictory way and even though nothing may be wrong with this, however getting people to admit this is hard because people resent the fact of being told they live there life in a contradictory way. Shand analyzes love in an analogy of art and comes to the conclusion that that love involves a level of involvement and suspension of disbelief in order to exist for us, and is ...

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Added: 5/17/2011 08:19:14 PM
Submitted By: kenyon24
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 508
Pages: 2

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