Research Article
The Estrangement of Love from Philosophy: A Critical Analysis
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.9-11-2022.2329427, author={Muhammad Irfan Syaebani and Untung Yuwono and Embun Kenyowati Ekosiwi}, title={The Estrangement of Love from Philosophy: A Critical Analysis}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Seminar on Cultural Sciences of Brawijaya, ISCS 2022, 9--10 November 2022, Malang, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ISCS}, year={2023}, month={6}, keywords={love philosophy modernism positivism science}, doi={10.4108/eai.9-11-2022.2329427} }- Muhammad Irfan Syaebani
Untung Yuwono
Embun Kenyowati Ekosiwi
Year: 2023
The Estrangement of Love from Philosophy: A Critical Analysis
ISCS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.9-11-2022.2329427
Abstract
Philosophy does not study love seriously, there is only a tiny portion. Furthermore, philosophy perceives love as a disgrace because love is related to emotion, while philosophy is related to ratio. Through text analysis of the books Discourse on Method and The Course of Positive Philosophy to examine Western philosophy's history, this study begins. The results reveal that Western philosophy moves to developments focusing on pure rationality. Philosophy gives birth to science characterized by rationalism-empiricism. More radically, the development of science leads to positivism, and each science will have an object of study with its method. Love was then eliminated from philosophy because love is related to emotion, and in science, emotion became an object for psychology, especially psychoanalysis. Philosophy and science go their separate ways. Philosophy focuses on efforts related to understanding humanity's problems, and love is not considered a philosophical problem, only an object of study in psychoanalysis.