QUESTION TAG

QUESTIONS TAGS

1. Discuss. Why do we love? It’s heart-breaking and complicated most of the times yet do we need it at all? 
As I said in my research post, we love because it's a basic need for humans. We don't like the complete solitude so we are inclined to build a community, and to preserve our community we have to reproduce and this induces love. 

2. How does the video define love? Put the words in order:(Intoxicating, Heart-breaking, Beautiful, Soul crushing)

1-Beautiful           2-Intoxicating            3-Hearth-breaking          4-Soul crushing

3. What are the 5 Philosophers mentioned?  

1- Plato       2- Schopenhauer      3- Russell     4- Buddha     5- Beauvoir

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

1- PLATO: "Love make us whole again". He says that we just love to become complete.
2- SCHOPENHAUER: "Love tricks us into having babies". He thinks that love is based on sexual desire.
3- RUSSELL: "Love is escape from our loneliness". He says that we love to satisfy our physical and psychological desire. 
4- BUDDHA: "Love is a misleading affliction". He says that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires.
5- BEAUVOIR: "Love lets us reach beyond ourselves". Love is the desire to integrate with another and that it infuses our lives with meaning.

5. Vocabulary work. Which Philosopher says what?

1)Dependance on another means boredom and power games: Simone de Beauvoir

2)We succeed in perpetuating human species and perpetuating human tragedy: Shopenhauer

3)Quench our physical and psychological desires: Russell  

4)It enriches our whole being together: Russell

5)Attachments are a great source of suffering: Buddha

6)Love is the longing to find a soulmate who makes us feel whole again: Plato

7)Love infuses our life with meaning: Simone de Beauvoir