Can love be justified? If so, how?
Part of the task in understanding personal love is to distinguish the various kinds of personal love. For example, the way in which I love my wife is seemingly very different from the way I love my mother, my child, and my friend.
there exists various puzzles about love. Can love be justified? If so, how? What is the value of personal love? What impact does love have on the autonomy of both the lover and the beloved?
- I love playing tennis
- I love my dog
- I love my wife
- what is meant by ‘love’ differs from case to case.
- Some describes eros as the “‘love of desire,’ or acquisitive love” and therefore as egocentric
- Agape’ has come, primarily through the Christian tradition, to mean the sort of love God has for us persons, as well as our love for God and, by extension, of our love for each other—a kind of brotherly love
- agape is “spontaneous and unmotivated
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