Love
The power to value people, nature, animals, life itself—and to treat them as ends, never merely as means.
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Essays - Of Friendship & Love
Michel de Montaigne
Montaigne explores Love as the valuing of another person - seeing them as an end, not a means. Love as fundamental to being human.
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Confessions - On Love & Desire
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine explores what we truly love and how misdirected love leads to emptiness. Love rightly ordered is the foundation of meaning.
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Essays - Of Friendship & Love
Michel de Montaigne
Montaigne explores Love as the valuing of another person - seeing them as an end, not a means. Love as fundamental to being human.
Why it matters: Montaigne shows Love is fundamental to being human - the willingness to value others beyond utility.
Confessions - On Love & Desire
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine explores what we truly love and how misdirected love leads to emptiness. Love rightly ordered is the foundation of meaning.
Why it matters: Shows that Love is about what we ultimately value - and that misdirected love leads away from human flourishing.