Love plays God The foundation of Western love : Hebrew scripture From physical desire to paradise : Plato Love as perfect friendship : Aristotle Love as sexual desire : Lucretius and Ovid Love as the supreme virtue : Christianity Why Christian love isn't unconditional Women on top : love and the troubadours How human nature became loveable : from the high Middle Ages to the Renaissance Love as joyful understanding of the whole : Spinoza Love as enlightened romanticism : Rousseau Love as religion : Schlegel and Novalis Love as the urge to procreate : Schopenhauer Love as affirmation of life : Nietzsche Love as a history of loss : Freud Love as terror and tedium : Proust Love reconsidered
