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    It is not the case that Love is a longing for immortality

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Love characteristically involves valuing the beloved for their particularity, not as a vessel for one's own perpetuation.
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    • 2.A longing defined by self-continuity instrumentalizes the beloved, contradicting the altruistic structure Plato himself attributes to genuine eros in the Phaedrus.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Heidegger's analysis of Being-toward-death shows that authentic existence requires accepting finitude rather than fleeing it into fantasies of permanence.
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    • 2.If love were fundamentally a flight from mortality, it would constitute what Heidegger calls inauthenticity, yet many philosophical traditions treat love as among the most authentic of human experiences.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The lover longs for the good to be his own forever
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    • 2.Longing for the good forever entails longing for immortality
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