Definition, Write your definition of love.
There are many kinds of love in the world. Love for country, love for friends, love for fashion, love for religion, and so on... But, I will only write about love between lovers which is the usual thought that we conceive when we heard love.
Scientists said that feeling love is just the effects of the hormone. And evolutionists and some philosopher like schopenhauer said that love is just the mean for preservation of the species. Is it all about love? Well, I don't want to admit that, but I can't say they are liar or they are wrong.
Objectively, they are right in some way. But I don't think they said everything about love. In other words, I think they only mention about the part of love which is partially correct. So, when we apply their explanation to the entire, some exceptions emerged like loving someone who were already dead or enjoying platonic love which means 'a meeting of minds without contact'.
Love is so abstract that we cannot define the love in objective ways. The existence of exceptions above prove objective ways have limitation for explaining all of love. But we can identify 'love' in philosophical analysis. The one thing we exactly recognize is 'love makes happiness'. we long for love because we know that we will be happy when we are loving. Therefore, we can conclude that love is good thing which makes happiness.
The Constitution that we erect for our life also ensure the right which is pursuit of people for happiness. So, we can say we are born to be happy and want to be happy. And loving can make what we want.
In conclusion, we can say that the definition of love is : "One of the ways to reach happiness that we are pursuing"
Hi! This is Hayeon Jin!! I appreciate your simple and well-organized essay. I especially liked the part where you cited a philosppher's saying. That lifted the credibility of your assetion. My one and only concern is that the second to the last paragraph sounded a little vague and unclear. "The Constitution that we erect for our life also ensure the right which is pursuit of people for happiness" It was hard for me to get what you were saying. However, I really enjoyed reading the other part of your essay. Thank you for sharing!!
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