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Love - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Romanticism
  - - - To feel is to be human. To be unfeeling is to be traumatized (from the Greek, literally ‘wounded). Human flourishing as human beings individually and socially is frustrated by unfeeling people and our stories about them. We are Homo narrans - the story telling creature.
- - - - Religion
    - - ordered telos
    - - The foundational unit of
        
        Society
        
        Collectivism
        
        Individualism / liberalism
        
        problems with
        
        The volition to think and act opens the possibility to make infinite choices throughout one’s life and thus creates an unbearable burden of existence in which Jean Paul Satre writes “man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
        
        Existentialism
        
        organising principle of
        
        Politics
        
        Democracy
        
        a political expression of
        
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        There is nothing the West believes to be a greater triumph than the advent and implementation of democracy.
        
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        interdependent
        
        Economics
        
        Telos
        
        The proper ruling of private and public households (hence oikonomia, from the Greek: oikos/household and nomoi/rules, laws) was to be aimed at both the individual and the common good
        
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        western variety is
        
        Capitalism
        
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        eastern variety
- - - - Social Media
        
        Encourages us from a young age to make ourselves into products to sell
        
        Technology
        
        paragons of
        
        GAFA tetrarchy (google, amazon, Facebook, apple)
        
        Problem with
        
        The problem of Bigness (which Kant called ‘the Sublime’, and which Louis Brandeis remarkably presciently warned about in 1912 referring to ‘the evil of bigness’)
        
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