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Essay / Love in John Nozick: The Nature of Love - 859
Besides the list of examples Nozick gives of what love is, in his argument about the nature of love he believes that even if “your own well-being is linked with that of someone (or something) you love” (p. 231), this would ultimately shape a relationship known as we identity. In other words, the very nature of love is to form identity between couples. We relationship is the situation or circumstance where infatuation begins, deepens and transforms to become a new entity in the world. The people who formed our identity simply do not have their individual identities replaced. Instead, they changed to add a new, additional shared identity alongside their individual identity. Nozick states that people engaged in these relationships are people who have become accustomed to being where the two have psychologically become a single unit that makes co-united and homologous/unanimous arrangements or decisions. For example, if something happened to one partner, it would also affect the other partner. Another example that serves to illustrate the us definition of relationship is the way in which boundaries around the individual - strong enough to separate the world from what is inside and outside - can come together to another individual to create a new boundary where couples are the only ones. those who are connected. At the same time Nozick offers other arguments about how the relationship between us is created, he states that many factors play into its creation. For example, Nozick says that our relationship is the perfect blend of partner possession where it accords with the presence of autonomous control over oneself. Couples who were previously individuals will become healthy in the formation of the paper story if one is not in love but still looking for partners. He extends this argument to the way in which sex is a means of marking the physical closeness of the couple and to “sexual monogamy”. (p. 237) Nozick says that it is incoherent to ask how love benefits an individual, because it is through love that individual identity is able to transform and create the identity of the We. He states that the common identity of the relationship “expands us and enhances your individual relationship.” (p. 233) Other advantages he lists in Love's Bond include how there is a form of unconditional love or total acceptance expressed by the lovers, such as ignoring or forgiving the fact that certain weaknesses exist. It is therefore incoherent to ask how an individual who has not experienced love can explain or understand the properties of love or enjoy the benefits of being in the relationship...