The Problem with Love | Mark Salter, Helen-Ann Hartley, Phillip Blond

Philosophy For Our Times

English - July 30, 2019 08:58 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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'Love conquers all' is a motto central to our culture and its Christian heritage. Yet Buddhists think love an obstacle to enlightenment. Nietzsche went further and called love barbaric ‘for it is practised at the expense of all others’. Is love for all an illusion? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, consultant psychiatrist Mark Salter, Anglican Bishop Helen-Ann Hartley and Political Philosopher Phillip Blond debate the darker sides of the most powerful emotion.

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