Recorded July 10, 2024
Broadcast July 14, 2024
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“Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all,” or so we are told. But if we ask people to explain how we know love from lust, or a good deed motivated by love from one that isn’t, we often get platitudes and poetry. There are simply no foolproof tests for love itself. Instead, we bumble through our relationships, hopefully learning from our mistakes and hurting others as little as possible, along the way. Simply put, love is hard to define. On this episode, we try to do just this.
Simon May is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at King’s College, London. He is the author of numerous books, including Love: A History, and Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion.
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