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Essay / The Philosophical Truth About Healthy Love...
Have you ever sat down and wondered what a healthy romantic relationship does for us as subjects? We recently discussed Kelly Oliver's Family Values: Nature vs. Nurture Topics. Kelly Oliver “examines the ways in which nature and culture have been defined in relation to sexual difference, articulated as the difference between mother and father” (Oliver xi). The reality of relationships has been controversial by some philosophers and has been given credence to the idea that anything can be accomplished from self-love. Kelly Oliver gives us a clear picture, through the text, of all the possible aspects of life that we can acquire in a healthy romantic relationship through the meeting of two or more individuals. These types of relationships can be developed with family, friends and lovers. I would like to take you, readers, on a fascinating journey of what I believe, as a student of philosophy, can supposedly be obtained from a structural relationship. As a society we have a distinct definition of what a healthy romantic relationship is, but we as individuals have a mindset of important values or concepts that we place in a distinct order on the way we think a healthy relationship should progress. In this section, I will discuss what Oliver means by “social” and “embodied.” Before getting into Oliver, I will begin by introducing readers to the broad dictionary definition of embodiment, “incarnation may be an expression of or giving tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling) ". We have just seen how society explains what incarnation is, but now we must move on to Oliver's text. Oliver explains in his introduction that his philosophical work explains “the opposition between nature and culture has been figured as a war between the sexes...... middle of paper...... and physically. Positive factors associated with social and embodied relationships can lead to longer, happier, and healthier lives. By reflecting on their social and embodied relationships, they can interpret the positive outcomes of these relationships in their daily lives. “It is undeniable that the fantasy of the nuclear family is still a centerpiece of our cultural imagination” (Oliver XVII). influential representations of an embodied father and a social mother, representations of motherhood and fatherhood in culture leave us with dispirited images of isolation. Changing the stereotypes and representation of our culture is an essential step in changing our family situations. As we try to recreate family structures outside the confines and unworkable idea of the average nuclear family, we alter our representation of the possibility of love and of ourselves..