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An existentialist philosopher on why we should not let fear dictate love

By Henry Somers-Hall, Professor of Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London

Let’s begin with a story from the beginnings of western philosophy that doesn’t sit well with existentialist thought.

In Plato’s Symposium, a character called Aristophanes gives an account of love. He tells us that human beings originally had doubled bodies, with two heads, four arms and four legs. As a punishment for threatening the gods, however, Zeus cut each of them in half.

Now, these half humans,…

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