Platonic Love
In modern sense—nonphysical;
In philosophic sense – according to Diotima - Love only the Excellent or the Beautiful.
Steps Up The Ladder of Love/Beauty:
1) Love one Fine body
2) Love all Fine bodies
3) Love Fine Souls
4) Love the Fine in Laws and Customs
5) Love the Fine in the Sciences
6) Love the Wide Sea of the Fine
7) Love the Fine Itself
Christian Love
Agape love: indiscriminate benevolence toward all mankind.
Love of God – represented by mystics. Static upward longing for God.
Romantic Love
(Eros tyrannis) Love is a mighty god – a form of sickness.
12th and 13th Century. Courtly love glorified adultery.
16th Century – Love sickness official cause of death.
Love between two people is the highest form of love.
Freudian
Love is a process whereby you like something in yourself. Must like yourself first.
Meet someone who has qualities you admire. Sexual gratification.
The most powerful urge in people is sexual.
Eros
It is the essence of love to be good.
We can take delight (philia) in the person we want (eros) and wish to possess (eros),
in the very person whose existence is already a source of joy (philia);
in other words we can love passionately and joyusly at the same time.
Philia
Spinoza's Love is a joy, accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
To love is to derive joy, or more precisely to derive joy from.
Let us say that philia is love-as-joy, or can be,
reciprocal: the joy of loving and being loved.
Philia is active love in contrast to eros love-as-passion,
which is not to say they cannot go hand and hand.
Agape
"God is love".
If God is love, then this love--agape--cannot be definied by want or lacking,
since God is lacking nothing.
1984
Pat Benatar
Love is a Battlefield
2009
Jordin Sparks
Battlefield
| Last Updated: 10/19/22 |