Thinking Matters: What is Love?

Stanford professors Kathryn Starkey and David Lummus teach "What is Love?," a Thinking Matters course that examines the classical roots, medieval developments, and contemporary permutations of Western ideas of romantic love. With an eye to thinking about representations of love in our own culture, they consider some of the foundational love books of the Western tradition.

Music: "Filaments" by Podington Bear

[waldwassermann]

I would like to argue that love does the thinking (or feeling) therefore resulting in matter as QM indicates. In addition, the idea of romantic love is not an invention of the Middle-Ages for was it not Parmenides who described Eros as the first God, this, perhaps after reading about the romantic escapades of Krsna and his gopis? Eros is us as we are.

[avirjaanbachchanhnv]

It is chemical reaction and every thing is one or the other elements of chemistry only but love this feeling In every heart is so much into its own which is not possible to express in some words. Like book is made of many papers but the eternal thing is the information you are getting. So love is eternal and every one has it for someone or the other thing should be discussed how to love everyone.

[SureshKumar]

Can you please reduce the volume of the background music in these videos? So loud and distracting :(
Thanks!

[codymcewan]

These people are paid for this site? How