There are many ways in which love can help humans to achieve happiness and fulfillment. In Plato’s discussion on love, he explains to us that love offers us a pathway from chaos (25-31 Plato, Aristophanes), the romantic companionship that it offers can lead people out of loneliness. Love also leads us to happiness and fulfillment by leading us too our matching half who we can spend the rest of our lives with. Love can also make us feel different emotions depending on how the love is carried out. Phadreus claims that love gives us a sense of shame for acting badly and a sense of pride for acting well. Another positive aspect of love is that is helps us to overcome selfishness therefore leading to happiness and fulfillment.

What are some of the ways that CERTAIN forms of love can pose an obstacle to human’s achievement of happiness and fulfillment?

There are many ways in which different kinds of love such as sexual love, romantic lo

To what extent is it possible for humans to overcome these obstacles to their happiness and fulfillment?

Overcoming the obstacles to fulfillment and happiness are very possible according to Plato and Augustine. Plato, whose emphasis is on Romantic love and sexual love, believes that Romantic and Sexual love is the first step toward appreciating and understanding the whole of beauty, “Beauty itself.” As long as one ascends the staircase in the proper order, it is possible for one to overcome the obstacle to achieve happiness and fulfillment. According to Augustine, whose focus is on love of God, he believes that all forms of love are good, but only so long as love of God is assigned to the first priority or the fundamental place of the “house of love.” Augustine believes that in order to achieve happiness, the foundation of the house must be devoted to the love of God, then everything else such as sex, ….. falls into place.

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