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Philosophical concepts interpret love in very different ways: from an illusion to a universal force that permeates all of existence. In any case, they recognize its existence.
But if you strictly respond to your phrase ” is it necessary?”, then this is not difficult. Reasoning logically, we get:
A person in general ( as humanity) – yes, most likely it is needed. If it appears again and again, it means that there is some need or reason for its existence.
For a specific person, no, it doesn't have to be necessary. People are different and their choice should not be limited to an artificial requirement. It doesn't follow from the fact that love exists that it should exist – in general or in your personal life.
If we understand love broadly – as passion, will, motivation, i.e. not only the love of one person for another, but also love for life, for oneself, for the truth, passion, energy-of course, it is necessary.
Love as an energy is the driving force of humanity and the individual, this was especially clearly understood by such philosophers as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer (for them, love takes the form of will). The latter's entire book, The Metaphysics of Sexual Love, is devoted to this.
But even more rationalistic philosophers did not deny the meaning of love: Aristotle identified as many as six types of love: eros, storge, agape, mania, ludus, pragma. He definitely considered love an important aspect of being human.
And, of course, do not forget that philosophy itself is love – the love of wisdom.
It all depends on the individual, as each person has their own philosophy. Someone needs love from all points of view, and someone relies only on a philosophical point of view.
Yes, of course, philosophy has its own point of view on it, which is somewhat different from what is so to speak prosaic and understandable to us…
The philosophical concept of love is not only what we usually understand as a feeling of deep sympathy for one (person) – for another or for something else (that deserves it). In addition to its relation to the human, it also has another more thorough philosophical meaning (it is appropriate to say that philosophy itself, as it is rightly noted, arose as a result of love for such a < philosophical > kind of knowledge and sciences).
This essence, according to the ancients, is somehow related-both to being, and, accordingly, to the world. Ancient Greek philosophers even tried to raise it to the level of world existence and significance. So the philosopher Empedocles believed that in the world there is a constant confrontation between the two main forces of Love (Harmony) and Hostility (Hatred, Discord).
In the words of his contemporaries: “He considered Love to be the creative cause of the intelligible cosmos “(“Creative and purposeful cause . . . Empedocles… attributes to Love… “and it” gathers all things into One”), which “by union forms the Sphairos”. It is self-sufficient: “A round Ball (Sphairos) enjoying joyful solitude.” What, of course, is inherent in the attributes of the intelligible First (Single or <even> Absolute value).
Under the universal domination of Love, this world Svayros is formed, a kind of complete (in the concept of spherical) formation in which everything is imbued with harmony, unity and, accordingly, being (true)… this (Sphairos) philosopher “also calls god.”
If we follow the spirit and logic of idealism in philosophy, then it is in accordance (and for the most part) with their views on the world: the love that arises in the human soul occurs because of the existence of Love (universal), which is located in the intelligible (region) of the world, like other similar entities (“Perfect Love in its affectionate immortal impulse” – Empedocles). And its purpose: to participate in the world as the creative force that unites all or leads to unity (“connecting them by the power of Love”). And, when it arises in a person, it is able to perform similar functions as universal (Love). This is what the ancient Greek philosopher Plato points out when he says that “love is called the thirst for wholeness and the desire for it…”. And the place of its (Love's) permanent abiding, as the philosopher would say, is the “heavenly region”, where the divine is located . And the appeal to him evokes in the soul those benevolent feelings that are characteristic of love. The ancient Greek philosopher Plutarch, notes: “Where they meet a trace, a hint, a joyful sign of the presence of God, they are filled with divine delight and light up with a joyful memory of what truly brings joy, bliss and love”, “It is not for nothing that poets have decorated the halo of the deity / Brow of Love”, – Byron. It is from this energy that all actions in the lower world are energetically launched and supported. The ancient philosopher Plotinus, after all, says that “…we should be grateful that the lower receives something from the higher…”, and Byron: “All living things are warmed by love -” You knew that the soul, warmed by love, / could overcome Space and year.”
But its immediate cause, as philosophers believe, is the essence of beauty. Because of this, it is directed to this area, to that reason of its own, where everything that is most beautiful is located. For, as the ancient philosopher Proclus says, “the intelligible is even more beautiful than the heavenly bodies… the first beautiful thing shines in all its visibility.” And therefore, the appeal to these objects and causes such a state of mind (human). According to the philosopher (Plotinus): “Love, on the other hand, is a loving vision and striving for the beauty of the eidos of the Mind” (isn't this the origin of the concept of “platonic love!”), and the philosopher makes a <significant> clarification: “Love directly contemplates divine beauty”. And it is precisely at this point, as these philosophers think, that the soul plunges into harmony – for the good, “… if the beautiful is the cause of the good, then the good arises from the beautiful… the beautiful is a kind of father of the good” (Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher).
Such states of the soul occur due to the fact that the soul (in some of its <most valuable> parts) is a semblance of the One (Absolute). It is in the above-mentioned states that it acquires their true features (and states), and at the same time it receives powerful energy support from Above (Byron: “To breathe instant love. / The immortal flame of a disembodied passion”; Plato explains that if “someone looks at the beauty here, remembering the true beauty, he is inspired, and when he is inspired, he strives to fly up”). And, of course, at the same time, it is also filled with meanings, becomes active, is inspired, strengthens the moral spirit, etc. Because again, by its presence, it opens up one of the sources through which a person receives so necessary energy both for life and for his existence.
Therefore, the answer to this question should naturally be in the affirmative: yes. After all, this is one of those perfect states of the soul and spirit (human); the soul embraces harmony, feeling and consciousness of the beautiful, the good. Such a mental attitude is assisted (and assisted) all the great (powerful) forces of the world, and the world itself. And, naturally, as philosophers would say, the degree of being increases both in the soul itself and in the whole of a person. And this (also) means: vital well-being, and health – physical and mental, and all together (in a person).
Love – – – is not to consider someone “the best, “”the only one in the world” and so on. To love is to help a person to be the sun. After all, the sun is not the only one and the best, but it is simply bright. Don't be afraid to learn to love-it means rediscovering the world and those you care about. True love can't change, it doesn't require anything from the object, and it can't turn into another emotion, because it doesn't start with an emotion. Discard all false or superficial types of love, and what is left? The answer will come as soon as you learn to accept yourself. Because love is an inner force, you see it for the first time from within, directed at yourself. With respect.
If this is not a blabla philosophy, then it is precisely this philosophy that leads to Love, Understanding that MJ relationships are NOT about Love, like the relationship of Parents and Children, like what is USUALLY considered “love” for one's neighbor. But it is philosophy that can lead to the Understanding and living of Love as a Unity, integrity, coherence of everything that will carry in every moment of being. If it's not, then that's the blablabla philosophy.
I once analyzed the reproductive capacity of 53 of the most famous “philosophers” to answer the question: how do philosophers reproduce? I put them in a table, where I noted the presence of a wife, the number of children, and the direction of “philosophical” reflections.
It turned out that 32 out of 53 philosophers did not have children. 17 out of 53 people were never married at all.
Ergo. Obviously, Evolution does not support the practice of philosophy. Agree that with such reproductive results, the population is doomed to extinction.
What can a man say about love who does not have the desire for reproduction and for women? Just nonsense.
Do not take into account the statements of “philosophers” on this topic. They are simply incompetent in the matter of love.
The reasons for our existence are :the corresponding atmosphere, air density, attraction, as well as the cause of our birth are our parents, etc. The first Cause gives us the right to life, happiness, love, freedom, and a reasonable understanding of our being. All these virtues are the essential principle in man (the idea, the universal). For this purpose, a person is given a soul, as the owner of all these properties, but the right to realize these virtues is reserved for a specific person. This is why the Holy Scriptures say, “To love God and your neighbor with all your heart,” and these two points are the whole fulfillment of the law. Any right requires obligations from a person. Any activity of a person is connected with his volitional decision and, accordingly, with goal-setting in the act he has committed. The moral law establishes an objective reason, independent of the external world, and is present in man as an ethical imperative. A person's desire for good, for perfection, is free and conscious, and this independence determines his heteronomous ethics: to do good, to love, or not to do, not to love . There is both good and evil in the world, since man was created out of nothingness. This postulate of achieving happiness in an infinite perspective is possible only under the condition of the existence of God. Kant explains this by saying “that the happiness that man achieves in this infinite perspective is the state of a rational being in the world when his entire existence takes place according to his will and desire.” “Morality, strictly speaking,” writes Kant, “is not a teaching about how we should make ourselves happy, loved, but about how we should become worthy of happiness”, i.e., perfect as “Your Heavenly Father is perfect” and this is the meaning of life. But to achieve perfection means to return to its essential beginning is possible only if religion joins it. Therefore, the ultimate goal of God, according to Kant, is not the happiness of people, but the highest good, which adds to the happiness of people one more condition – to be worthy of happiness, that is, to be worthy of happiness. being a moral person means being able to receive the divine grace of love and be loved.
If someone believes that love is not necessary, then he denies existence. Love of varying degrees of manifestation is the fundamental principle of manifested being-the attraction of polarities. The attraction of a satellite of a planet with its rotation around it; the attraction of planets orbiting one sun is love for this center; the attraction of the sun to the central sun with the rotation of the entire solar system around the “central” one also occurs by the power of love, etc.examples of the Macrocosm demonstrate love, where the degree (force of attraction) does not depend on the mass of the body (as science mistakenly believes). The same thing happens in the microcosm, both in the person himself at the psychophysical, mental and higher levels of being, and in relationships in society. The attraction of man to the Earth and the impossibility of his physical existence outside the Earth's atmosphere is due to his love for it, as an unobvious force that has not yet been established by science.
The central atom of a person or a particle (monad, grain of spirit), around which the energies that are transformed into matter crystallize, is a combination of a ray of Luminaries with the elements. The combination occurs in attraction with accompanying conditions, which in fact is one of the manifestations of love.
The macrocosm and the microcosm are inseparable and mutually conditioned in existence, as if mutually reflected. All processes of motion manifested in the basis have attraction polarities. The Great Breath itself, which is filled with every particle of Infinity, is Love, i.e. a rhythmic alternation of centripetal and centrifugal Forces caused by a change in aspiration (attraction vector).
One of the rough types of energy that is born when so-called elementary particles love a magnet is electricity, i.e. the force of manifest motion, which in turn gives rise to magnetism – a new type of attraction-love. If we examine the emerging forces and fields in detail, we can find their interdependence. In the universe, everything is built on expediency and commensurability.
Of course, love as attraction can be conscious to varying degrees, but to say that someone from two-legged is not inherent in love, or it is not the basis of movement, would be misleading. Even so-called soulless people who have lost their spiritual connection with the Supreme are reincarnated again and again out of love for the material world of the Earth, until this feeling, called tanha (thirst for life) in the East, is completely exhausted (in the karmic sense).
The reasons for our existence are :the corresponding atmosphere, air density, attraction, as well as the cause of our birth are our parents, etc. The first Cause gives us the right to life, happiness, love, freedom, and a reasonable understanding of our being. All these virtues are the essential principle in man (idea, universal). For this purpose, a person is given a soul, as the owner of all these properties, but the right to realize these virtues is reserved for a specific person. This is why the Holy Scriptures say, “To love God and your neighbor with all your heart,” and these two points are the whole fulfillment of the law. Any right requires obligations from a person. Any activity of a person is connected with his volitional decision and, accordingly, with goal-setting in the act he has committed. The moral law establishes an objective reason, independent of the external world, and is present in man as an ethical imperative. A person's desire for good, for perfection, is free and conscious, and this independence determines his heteronomous ethics: to do good, to love, or not to do, not to love . There is both good and evil in the world, since man was created out of nothingness. This postulate of achieving happiness in an infinite perspective is possible only under the condition of the existence of God. Kant explains this by saying that the happiness that a person achieves in this infinite perspective is the state of a rational being in the world when his entire existence takes place according to his will and desire. “Morality, strictly speaking,” writes Kant, “is not a teaching about how we should make ourselves happy, loved, but about how we should become worthy of happiness”, i.e., perfect as “Your Heavenly Father is perfect” and this is the meaning of life. But to achieve perfection means to return to its essential beginning is possible only if religion joins it. Therefore, the ultimate goal of God, according to Kant, is not the happiness of people, but the highest good, which adds to the happiness of people one more condition – to be worthy of happiness, that is, to be worthy of happiness. being a moral person means being able to receive the divine grace of love and be loved.
Everyone longs for great mutual love. The question of whether a person needs love is simply absurd. A person cannot live without love. Sigmund Freud described Pansexuality as impossible without love. Love can be different, you need to remember this.
In philosophy, too, there is no consensus on this matter, as well as among ordinary people) If a person believes that he needs love, then he needs it.) If not, then no. In this matter, every man for himself.