Hi @alexanderalexis,
I didn't know that it has been suggested love is a modern Western invention. As you suggest in your article, all you have to do is read the classics from non-Western cultures to prove otherwise. For example, there are whole collections of love poems from the Heian Period of Japanese literature.
Glad to see you back addressing provocative ideas.
Hope you are well.
Yes. This is what happens when social scientists think everything is a social construction! I'll now be looking for evidence of romantic love in every ancient text I read!
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