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Debate topics:
Affirmative: Love is fundamentally about self-interest vs. Negative: Love is an experience that
forces us to go beyond our self-interest.
| am talking about the negative side which is :
Negative: Love is an experience that forces us to go beyond our self-interest.
Relevant primary readings:
Badiou, In Praise of Love
De Beauvoir, The Second Sex
hooks, All About Love
Plato, The Symposium
Assessment criteria:
1. Understanding of the issues addressed in the readings (50%)
2. Understanding of potential counterarguments (20%)
3. Clarity and coherence of argument (20%)
4. Proficiency of oral written expression and structure (10%)
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Love is often portrayed as a powerful force, something that can inspire greatness in the lover. Love is a set of emotions and behaviours characterized by intimacy, passion, and commitment. We sing about it, write about it and watch movies about it, but when you think about it, falling in love is crazy and maybe even weird.
Alternatively, it is something that can make the lover act like a fool. Love can be the greatest feeling in the world, but it can also be utterly devastating when it doesn’t work out. Love makes us feel and do things we usually wouldn’t do under any other circumstances. First, it physically affects our hormones and
ain. In fact, scientists have shown that love affects the
ain in a way like cocaine addiction. Not only that, it also affects us psychologically and behaviourally.
We go beyond the rules and systems to fulfil our needs and interest. We put ourselves before anyone and anything else except for the term ‘love’. Love is the only experience in the entire world that makes us choose our partner’s preferences and interests before ourselves. We even jeopardise our self-respect in the process which makes us go beyond our self-interest. We become non-egocentric, non-a
ogant, and non-self-centred. We tend to do things out of our comfort zone to ensure our partner feels loved and cared for.
Love does involve self-interest, it’s not like we are utterly bound to do the things just our partner likes giving up our interests and needs. It just means we sometimes are so considerate about our partner’s feelings and enthusiasm towards certain things that we are so willing to get out of the bu
le wrap of self-interest and likeliness. We might even look like complete idiots doing the things we literally have no idea about, however, that doesn’t seem to bother us if your partner enjoys it.
For example Boys, that may mean taking a yoga class or taking their girlfriends for a pedicure and hair dressing. Similarly, girls frequently engage in sports, FIFA, and video games to please their partners even though they don't really seem to enjoy doing so. There are times when you do something you don't enjoy, like watching their favourite television with them even if you hate it. We have also seen people moving across the country, even to a different country, to support their partner’s achievement and happiness. This is usually when you find out if you can have fun together, you’d like to get to know each other more than just superficially.
Love has a complicated relationship with autonomy which is a crucial component of being a free and responsible human being and the ability to plan and manage our life. Love can threaten autonomy. We lose control over both major and little life decisions when we become emotionally invested in another person, schedule our lives around them, and begin to perceive their successes and failures as our own. Because of our attachment to others. Most people agree love involves some degree of flexibility and stepping outside one's comfort zone. We prioritise others' needs and feelings because we are afraid of losing them.
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Debate topics:
Affirmative: Love is fundamentally about self-interest vs. Negative: Love is an experience that
forces us to go beyond our self-interest.
| am talking about the negative side which is :
Negative: Love is an experience that forces us to go beyond our self-interest.
Relevant primary readings:
Badiou, In Praise of Love
De Beauvoir, The Second Sex
hooks, All About Love
Plato, The Symposium
Assessment criteria:
1. Understanding of the issues addressed in the readings (50%)
2. Understanding of potential counterarguments (20%)
3. Clarity and coherence of argument (20%)
4. Proficiency of oral written expression and structure (10%)
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