What author/philosopher makes the besy argument for the concept of "true love".
I've fallen in love and want to believe.
Pic unrelated
I would say Pessoa.
>>8280714
Dante.
>>8280714
Let's instead turn the question inwards on you, anon, and then let's try to bring it back round to the board's topic - literature. Image choices with such scant info are rarely accidental. It is reasonable to assume that you are in a gay relationship. And what's more, you profess /love/ (as opposed to mere rutting). The very idea of a gay man admitting to /falling in love/ is quite rare, quite something.
You sound like a schoolgirl, which doesn't necessarily make for bad lit, but get ahold of yourself. Perhaps you are instead currently enjoying infatuation, for example, which is admittedly a form of love, but older people know to see it coming a bit better.
Another enticing possibility is that this is the very first time that (assuming you're gay) you've happened on a loving gay relationship, which is why you're flitting about for lovey-dovey shit. The very idea that you could have emerged into a loving gay relationship may seem absurdly wonderful to you - if in fact that is what is going on.
You don't need to philosophize, I don't think - assuming the above is accurate. Maybe try a sonnet from Shakespeare?
>>8280714
socratese had the phaedo, phadrus, and there was also that one about a bunch of his friends and him getting together and each talking about what they think illustrates love the best.
sapho had love poems
Rumi
Maybe Alan Watts, but I have never heard anything from him about love, Im more of a consiousness freak
Erich Fromm maybe?
Jesus
Fire in the Belly and To Love and Be Loved both by sam keen
I read those in my love sex and western morality class
The Four Agreements
The Alchemist
anthting by Paul Cohelo
and contra to that maybe that Sluts Bible or whatever.
but it kinda hard to trust any philosophers who write on love as a significant majority
>>8280764
....a significant majority of them died alone
>>8280714
kierkegaard in anything written before the postscript.
>>8280723
This
>>8280764
Phaedo had shit to do with love nigger, you're thinking of the symposium
>>8280723
this
Kierkegaard. Read Works of Love, it's beautiful:
"Worldly wisdom is of the opinion that love is a relationship between persons; Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between: a person—God—a person, that is, that God is the middle term. However beautiful a relationship of love has been between two people or among many, however complete all their desire and all their bliss have been for themselves in mutual sacrifice and devotion, even though everyone has praised this relationship—if God and the relationship with God have been omitted, then this, in the Christian sense, has not been love but a mutually enchanting defraudation of love. To love God is to love oneself truly, to help another person to love God is to love another person, to be helped by another person to love God is to be loved."
Aristophanes
Nietzsche (sort of)
Nozick (though it really only works for men, but 4chan should be fine)
Solomon
>>8280714
Solomon, Diotima, Jesus and Ficino.
Zizek
>>8280714
Picture very related senpai
Erich Fromm
so did these guys make the runescape OST?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps0dnx7AHKE
