Nice story. I love hearing nice stories :)
Love has worked well for you. Lucky you, it hasn't for a lot of people. It, many times, even worked as a trap, being an addiction thus preventing them from escaping submission--as a women, I'm sure you understand me.
And as you asked, I don't like philosophy. It has been there since the dawn of humanity. Still the world is not better than before. I think that is because philosophies lay on unstable grounds. Would you erect your house without checking for firm foundations first? It may last if you're lucky; it also may not and people get smashed. It is like all the psychology stuff: it works from time to time, not every time. What works all the time is a posteriori justification or rationalisation. People like to make up stories and believing in them.
Actually I like neurophilosophy. It's not perfect, lot of work has to be done still, but it lays on--or wants to lay on--scientific facts, more than intuition, religious beliefs, or personal experience. Many philosophers are great minds, even geniuses. I don't want to lower their thinking. I only say that philosophies did not provide the expected results they claim. They couldn't, whatever the will to do it, because they lacked scientific material facts--in the sense of provable, with no ambiguity or no loophole.
Like Stoicism. You can't browse the internet with bulleted articles on what to do to be the perfect stoic. If it were working we would know it, since it has been around for two thousand years. Same for German philosophies from the early twentieth century: they were the most thought out ones. Did they prevent Nazism? Therefore, my view on philosophy is a much ado about nothing.
To come back to your article on the different philosophies through the age, and with my perspective as a neurophilosopher, I'd have talk about prehistoric love,--what was love without all our human culture--, animal love because we are all animal at first--love as an aesthetics, love as a primal emotion, love that arise in our Central Nervous System (CNS). evolution of
In neuroscience, nothing is set for now. The path to scientific knowledge will be long and hard. But we need it to have a better view on ourselves, not only about love, but on our ontology. This new neurophilosophy could help us to build a better world. Not just for a few lucky ones.
