Post Date August, 11 2023
Modern science has shown that the natural essence of the driving force of love is nothing else, but precisely the sexual desire of men and women, which is a natural instinct that continues the species. In this sense, it can be said that without sexual desire, there can be no love between men and women. Since love and sexuality are so closely related, it is no wonder that for thousands of years, countless literati and literati have fallen into a fog of confusion, often confusing love and sex.
From Socrates, the most famous philosopher in ancient Greece, to Sartre, the most outstanding thinker in modern France, from Augustine, the Christian saint in the West, to Zhu Xi, the epitome of Confucianism in the East, love and sex have been mixed to varying degrees, condemning, attacking, and even cursing them. In the open modern era, although people have begun to condemn, attack, and curse love and sex, they have transformed it into singing, promoting, and even worshipping. However, both the most avant-garde advocates of Western sexual liberation and the most intense feminists inevitably confuse love and sex. No wonder many wise men and women are puzzled by this.
Because libido is originally a natural instinct of humans, the most primitive, basic, strong, and tempting instinct. When combined with human truth, goodness, and beauty, it can be sublimated into beautiful love. It can generate enormous spiritual energy, create countless human wonders, and compose the most touching music in the world. However, once this instinct breaks free from the constraints of human civilization and is combined with falsehood, evil, and ugliness, it will mutate into ugly lust, turning into vicious snakes and insects, bewitching demons, and ferocious tigers and wolves, bringing people heartbreaking pain and unavoidable disasters. Love and sex are so close and yet so different. In ancient Greek mythology and legends, people once divided the goddess of love into two types: one is the "noble female goddess of love" in the sky, who is only attached to the soul; One is the "ordinary female goddess of love" on the ground, who is only attached to the body. If this is a genius's guess, then the understanding of the Renaissance Shakespeare masters is a conscious exploration.
This 16th century writer, with his unique insight into life, saw that although some people insist on treating "lewdness" as "love", "lewdness" falsely uses the simple form of "love" to make the "beauty of youth" pure and pure, covered with a bad name and criticized. However, 'lewdness' is after all' lewdness', and 'love' is after all 'love', Because 'love' makes people happy and comfortable, just like the sun after rain; the consequences of 'lust' are like a sunny day becoming stormy and windy. 'love' is like spring, always making people warm, fresh, and refreshing; 'lust' is like winter, making people shrink and sluggish, lazy and fatigued. 'love' never tires people, but 'lust' is like gluttony, full and dead. 'love' is always like truth, but 'lust' always lies and deceives people
From a philosophical perspective, love is a strong admiration between men and women, based on a certain natural and social foundation, who yearn for physical and spiritual integration. Essentially, it is a special moral and aesthetic relationship between men and women. Just as humans come from nature and are transcendent, love also comes from sexual desire but transcends it. She is neither pure sexual desire nor boring lust; She is a combination of sex and emotion, a fusion of spirit and flesh, and an alliance of truth, goodness, and beauty. If human sexual desire does not have true emotions, it is by no means love, but can only be a kind of animal desire; If there is no connotation of goodness, it is not love, but just a lust; If there is no form of beauty, then of course it is not love, at most it is just a sexual instinct.
Therefore, the sublimation from sexual instinct to love requires civilization as the path. Civilization is the product of social history progress and the crystallization of human cultural development. To have a beautiful love, we must first possess human civilization. Love can only be cultivated with civilization and watered with the spring of truth, goodness, and beauty in the soul. At the same time, the flower of love is not only the most magnificent and precious delicacy in the world, but also the most delicate and luxurious flower in the world. She needs people to care for her with their entire body and mind, and to care for her with their lifelong energy. In this sense, love can only belong to those who possess human civilization, to those who possess true, good, and beautiful souls. Belongs to those who care for her with their entire body and mind, and those who care for her with a lifetime of energy.
