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Book Review;Meditations onlove;Truly, madly, deeply 书评;爱的沉思;爱得真挚，疯狂，深刻; Plato described love as a serious mental disease.Aristotle saw it as a single soul inhabiting twobodies. Tina Turner dismissed the feeling as asecond-hand emotion. The nature of lovehow andwhen and why and with whom humans fall for eachotherhas preoccupied thinkers through the ages.Now a philosopher and a scientist have a go in twonew and markedly different books. 柏拉图曾经将爱描述为严重的心理疾病。亚里士多德认为爱是一灵栖两躯。蒂娜特纳并不认为这种感觉是种二手情感。爱的本质便是人们怎样，何时，为何，与谁共浴爱河，而这种本质已让思想家们研究了好几个世纪。如今，一位哲学家和一位科学家在其两本截然不同的新书中尝试着探求爱的本质。 In his latest work, In Praise of Love, Alain Badiou, a French philosopher, identifies threeprevailing philosophical views of love. It can be an ecstatic encounter; an unsentimentalcontract; or an illusion, best treated with scepticism. He rejects all three. For Mr Badiou,love is the decision to live life through two perspectives, that of both the lover and thebeloved. As such, it is more than the sum of its parts. Love is a construction, he writes, alife that is being made, no longer from the perspective of One but from the perspective ofTwo. | 
