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He bless you, Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy Podcast, brought to you with the support of the philosophy department at King's College London and the LMU in Munich.

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Today's episode Love Rain Over Me, The Romance of the Rose.

Looking for a romantic gift for that special someone, I highly recommend that you do not get them a copy of the 12th century treatise on love by Andreas Kapilanas.

Your intended sweetheart is going to have misgivings about your liaison once he or she reads the first page.

Here Andreas explains what love is, namely, a certain innate suffering caused by seeing and thinking too much about the shapeliness

of someone of the opposite sex.

And of course he has a point.

We all know from the lyrics of pop songs if not from personal experience that to love is to suffer

There's the fear of possible rejection and the agony of actual rejection

There are the pangs of longing when the beloved is absent,

replaced by anxiety and befutlement when the beloved is present. Just ask Pat Benatar

who proclaimed that love is a battlefield, or Billy Holiday, whose hard-won

expertise on this matter, led her to proclaim that, you don't know what love is until you've learned

the meaning of the blues. The Jay Giles band went further

still singing, I've had the blues, the reds, and the pinks. One thing for sure, love stinks.

Somewhat more poetic, little more encouraging is the definition of

love found in the romance of the rose. It reads,

Love is a mental illness afflicting two persons of the opposite sex.

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