Photo from Vecteezy.com I believe love is an impression of the mind that we have to play a part in society. We do not know love in the first place - that is why we explore its meaning. I also think there is no love of the self. That is a general idea. Because that love might just be felt as protection of one's property - whether or not material. With this exploration, I think there are three (3) stages of love in our lifetime: (1) Love is everywhere. When we were young, we understood love as affection for our parents, friends, and neighbors. We don't care much about what will happen because as long as we feel loved by others, we don't need and have to be scared of anything. Love is dependent on the people we know. Secondly, (2) love now becomes a responsibility. As we grow, we see different perspectives of love. Our thoughts are influenced by what we see and can even devour what we feel. We question ourselves, if we want to involve in this situation, would this satisfy my n
The philosophy of the self is debatable until the present time because no one knows what the self is. Socrates, one of the most powerful philosophers said that you must know yourself to know and possess virtue and wisdom. Descartes thinks that the self is a thinking thing, therefore, we are who we are because of what we think. John Locke said that the self is the personal identity found in consciousness, David Hume tells us about the self as a bundle theory of mind, Immanuel Kant manifests respecting others as respecting yourself and that you create yourself, and many more philosophers share their sentiments of the self. If we will build what the self truly is, we may see it in the theories our philosophers have given already. It is just that, for me, the ideas are broken to which we cannot see until now the self. I do not know much about the philosophies of the self, however, it challenges me to connect to my inner self and ask what this is. There are many theories about the