In Praise of Love

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Safety-first love, like everything governed by the norm of safety, implies the absence of risks for people who have a good insurance policy, a good army, a good police force, a good psychological take on personal hedonism, and all risks for those on the opposite side.

It is a brilliant first manipulation of the power of love and one we must now bring back to earth. I mean we must demonstrate that love really does have universal power, but that it is simply the opportunity we are given to enjoy a positive, creative, affirmative experience of difference.

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Philosophy requires its practitioners of either gender to assume the roles of savant, artist, activist and lover. I have called them the four conditions of philosophy.

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My own philosophical view is attempting to say that love cannot be reduced to any of these approximations and is a quest for truth.

Such is the nature of the amorous encounter: you go to take on the other, to make him or her exist with you, as he or she is.

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