Alain Guillemain's Blog
July 20, 2017
Dis co ne c ted
Your words
splayed on the screen,
a cro ss th e pa ge
ap pe ar brok en to me,
like th e th oughts of your min d
lik e my un ders tandin g
of you.
If only
the re wer e a bet te r way
tha n words on a pa ge,
on the screen,
to conne ct
wi th th e ess ence o f you r be in g.
July 19, 2017
Love and desire
In Plato's The Symposium, Diotima says to Socrates that "None of the gods loves wisdom or has the desire to become wise – because they already are; nor does anyone else who is already wise love wisdom."
This view raises the question – do you stop loving someone after you’ve got them? To answer this question, it is important to reflect on the nature of bounded-love. Bounded-love starts with the desire of an intangible-object, such as the desire of esteem in the eyes of another. This desire then gives rise to the desire of a tangible-object, such as a person. The sequence does not result in you stopping to love someone after you've got them because your desire of the intangible-object you crave, such as the desire of esteem in their eyes, is never entirely fulfilled.
If bounded-love has desire as its basis, is there another type of love that transcends the bounds of desire?
This view raises the question – do you stop loving someone after you’ve got them? To answer this question, it is important to reflect on the nature of bounded-love. Bounded-love starts with the desire of an intangible-object, such as the desire of esteem in the eyes of another. This desire then gives rise to the desire of a tangible-object, such as a person. The sequence does not result in you stopping to love someone after you've got them because your desire of the intangible-object you crave, such as the desire of esteem in their eyes, is never entirely fulfilled.
If bounded-love has desire as its basis, is there another type of love that transcends the bounds of desire?
