Human Love Flashcards
Capacity to know
Intellect
T or F. What is beautiful always starts with the senses.
True
Example of intellect
knowing that jumping from the top of a building will lead to death
Seeks the good as perceived by the intellect
Will
Example of Will
Jumping from the top of a building
Object of the will
Good
Object of the intellect
truth
According to _________, love is not primarily the product of the heart
St. Thomas Aquinas
Why is the heart associated with love?
It is the most conspicuous part when we feel love as an emotion (heart beats faster)
Loving is always a choice
True
Love is a feeling or activation
False
Can a robot love a person?
No. Because it does not have the capacity u sto unlove the person. It is just programmed to “love” the person by saying I love you
Is time a necessary element of love?
Not really. If God is beyond time, then he can love without time. It only becomes necessary for the transition from the senses to the intellect.
Why do man need time to truly love a person?
Because you cannot love a person if you are totally devoid of knowledge about him. As time passes by, you recognize the good qualities of that person as well as the bad ones.
Why do you still love the person even if he has so many bad qualities?
Because there is this one greatest quality of him that in comparison with the bad ones, they would all seem unimportant.
Love can be both sensitive and intellective aspect.
True
Love according to St. Thomas
Complacency of good
Satisfaction of a good
Inclination to good + our bodily reactions
Emotions or passions
Why do we have emotions or passions?
Because of the human’s sensitive aspect.
Examples of passions
Joy, anger, fear, hope, sadness, courage
All passions can be reduced to love
St. Thomas Aquinas
Corruption of chastity
Lust
Inclination to do evil to an enemy
Anger
Is anger good in itself?
Yes because we are sensitive beings, emotions are natural
When does anger (an emotion) become evil?
When it is an ACT or EXPRESSION. Ex. when you slap a person out of anger or resentment.
Is sexual urge evil?
No because it is simply a passion.
When does sexual urge become evil?
When it is an EXPRESSION. Ex. in your mind the sexy woman is being raped, etc.
Power of choosing between goods proposed as desirable by a mutable judgment
Free Will or Liberty
Kind of Liberty
Man is not free
When the object can be loved or hated
Freedom of Specification or Freedom of Choice
Kind of Liberty
Choosing good under choices
Can at will act or not act, perform an act or omit an action
Freedom of exercise
Etymology of love
From Germanic form s of the Sanskrit LUBH
LUBH means
desire
Chemicals released by animals that could alter behavior of another animal usually sexual behavior
Receptors are found in nose, scalp (girls), sweat (men)
Pheromones
Why are we not easily attracted to men who sweat?
Because we are not limited to the sensitive aspect. We rationalize, we justify.
Greek Notions of Love, Platonic Perspective
Eros, Philia, Agape
Greek Notions of Love
Intense or passionate desire directed to the body
Eros
Goal of eros
desire for immortality through the children
Greek Notions of Love
Desire for spiritual qualities
Friendship
Love of mother to daughter
Philia
Greek Notions of Love
Unconditional love
Developed when Christianity entered
Directed to the absolute being
Agape
Triarchic Theory of Love is According to
Robert Sternberg
Eros Triarchic Theory of Love
Passion
Philia Triarchic Theory of Love
Intimacy
Agape - Triarchic Theory of Love
Desire to continue the relationship
Commitment
Kind of Love according to Sternberg
Passion only
Infatuation
Kind of Love according to Sternberg
Intimacy only
Friendship
Kind of Love according to Sternberg
Commitment only
EMpty Love
Kind of Love according to Sternberg
P + I
Romantic Love (Love of Celebrities)
Kind of Love according to Sternberg
I+ C
Companionate Love
Lolo and Lola
Kind of Love according to Sternberg
P + C
Always fighting and ends up in bed
Foolish or Fatuous Love
Mr and Mrs Smith
Kind of Love according to Sternberg
P + I + C
Consummate Love
Will love remain to be consummate love?
No. It can go back to be companionate, foolish, etc
May 18, 1920
Wadowice, Poland
Love and Responsibility, Analysis of Love
Karol Wojtyla
Who influenced Wojtyla?
Thomas Aquinas and Max Scheler
Metaphysical analysis of love is according to
JP II
What is love according to Wojtyla
a mutual relationship between two persons
Why can only persons love?
Because they have intellect and will
Why is love based on attitudes towards the good
Because the object of the will is good
5 Levels of Love according to Wojtyla attraction it the essence of love not limited to inherent values PERSON as value attracted to the person himself
Amor Complacentiae
Love as Attraction
5 Levels of Love according to Wojtyla
originates in a need of a good which it lacks
not mere sensual desire
longing for the person
sexual urge is oriented in part to this completion
Love as desire
Amore concupiscentia
Basic element in human love
attraction
if you love the person because he’s rich or handsome, is it attraction
No!
5 Levels of Love according to Wojtyla Directed to genuine good to the person you would not do anything that would harm the person free of self-interest more unconditional than love as desire
Love as goodwill
amor benevolentiae
5 Levels of Love according to Wojtyla
Goodwill + sympathy
not philia
emotional kind of love whereby one feels with another
knowing each other well
full commitment of the will to another person with a view of the person;s good
Love as Friendship
5 Levels of Love according to Wojtyla
You will now surrender your being or person to the beloved
deeper than friendship
giving one’s person to another not merely sexual
no longer two but one
Betrothed Love
full communion of persons (communion personarum)
Betrothed Love
full surrendering of the self without losing possession of the self
Betrothed Love
Result of Betrothed Love
Marriage
response to sexual values of the body as a potential object of enjoyment
sensuality
has a consumer orientation towards the body
sensuality
Is sensuality evil?
No. It is a matter of natural reflexes. Though not evil, poses a threat and temptation
Kind of desire for nearness, proximity, exclusivity, or intimacy
Sentiment
Gives rise to romantic love
Sentiment
Why be careful with sentiment if making out is not evil?
Because it can easily shift into the territory of sensuality
Do not belong to the very essence of love
Sensuality & Sentiment
Spices of love
Sensuality & Sentiment
Raw materials of love
Sensuality & Sentiment
Must be true interpersonal love in the light of truth and free choice
Sensuality & Sentiment
Must be founded on true love
Sensuality & Sentiment
Incomplete without ethical aspect
Considered as virtue
Affirm the value of the person
Personality Norm
Love must direct itself through
free choice
