Lesson 4: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF LOVE Flashcards
TRUE OR FALSE
Love plays an essential role in Augustinian ethics.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE
“The therapeutic nature of grace heals the will through the Holy Spirit by illuminating the soul with the love of God”
TRUE
The Four Fundamentals
“disorders” or “passions” of desire, joy,
fear, and grief
Stoic ideal which says that a wise man should not experience the
four fundamentals
“apatheia”
is closely associated with desire, passion,
emotions, and so forth.
Love
TRUE OR FALSE
For Plato, both the good and the bad experience such emotions.
FALSE
For Augustine, both the good and the bad experience such emotions.
TRUE OR FALSE
Intention does not matter.
What matters is the intention.
The important factor in these emotions is ___________________________.
the character of a man’s will
TRUE OR FALSE
“A person is what one loves”
TRUE
Book by Augustine which described and elaborated that man is basically guided by two types of love
“City of God”
THE FUNDAMENTAL TYPES OF LOVE
- Love of Self (amor Sui).
- Love of God (amor Dei).
Augustine traces the very origin of the two ______ to two
types of love:
“cities”
was created by self-love reaching the point of
contempt for God;
earthly city
by the love of God carried as far as contempt
of self.
heavenly city
Augustine distinguishes kinds of love
- licit/illicit human love
- Divine love.
TRUE OR FALSE
For Augustine, Christians have to love with the love given to them by the Holy Spirit.
TRUE
Our love must be inspired by _________, and ought to mirror it.
divine love
endows the human will with a new desire, a striving for divine truth, wisdom, and justice.
Love as a gift of God
TRUE OR FALSE
love as the gift of God applies in the first place to God’s love for others.
FALSE
love as the gift of God applies in the first place to God’s love for us.
is a life coupling two realities or trying to couple them:
the lover and the loved object
Love
There are four objects of love
- God (Love of God)
- Our ourselves (Self-love)
- Our neighbors (Love of Neighbors)
- Our body (Love of the body)
Love unites us with God as our eternal, everlasting good.
LOVE OF GOD
Only God as summum bonum can guarantee true happiness our love will become perfect when we have attained God as our supreme good
LOVE OF GOD
God alone may be enjoyed
frui
all other created realities
have to be referred to the love of God
uti
Love proceeds from the status of the human being as a
creature.
Self-love
TRUE OR FALSE
Our insufficiency makes us seek the source of being, expressing our dependence rather than our self-sufficiency.
TRUE
is good when it is not contrary to the love of God.
Self-love
is a duty that we owe to ourselves.
Doing good
There are (3) three strong motives for the love of all
human beings:
a. they share in the same human nature with us
b. it is God’s commandment to do so
c. God’s presence is in them.
God’s self-revelation as love becomes for us an appeal, a
demand, and a commandment to love our neighbors as God
loves them.
LOVE OF NEIGHBOR
is every human being, whether that person is a Christian or non-Christian, a righteous or a sinner.
The neighbor
For _____________, it is impossible to love God without loving our neighbors.
Augustine
is a unit of mind and body.
human self
TRUE OR FALSE
Care for the body is based on unnatural love for it
FALSE
Care for the body is based on natural love for it
TRUE OR FALSE
Another eschatological reason for loving our bodies consists in belief in the resurrection of the body.
TRUE
Consequently, we have to affirm two things regarding the resurrection of the body:
I. it is the same body that will be resurrected
II. it is not exactly the same body because it will be freed from misery.
Augustine’s famous words, _________________ (Conf. 13.10), help one understand the crucial role of love in a man’s life.
“my weight is my love”
There has to be a certain “order of love” (__________) that is order as to the objects of one’s love
ordo amoris
used to emphasize the movement included in loving
Physical symbols
feet
(pedes)
weight
(pondus)
wings
(alae)
is an essential dimension of
Christian action
Love of God and neighbor
TRUE OR FALSE
Jesus reveals to us that the greatest commandment in the law is
the law of love to love God and others
TRUE
is talking about a love that is based in God’s Eternal Law
God
We can love others through concrete charitable acts:
corporal and spiritual works of mercy
DIFFERENT TYPES OF LOVE
- Eros (sexual passion)
- Philia (deep friendship)
- Ludus (playful love)
- Agape (love for everyone)
- Pragma (longstanding love)
- Philautia (love of the self)
- Storge (family love)
- Mania (obsessive love)
is the word for romantic, passionate love, suitably named after the
Greek god of love and desire, _______ (the equivalent of Cupid in Roman
mythology)
Eros (sexual passion)
represents love between friends, which can often be just
as important as romantic love.
Philia (deep friendship)
can mean love between
equals, love connected with the mind, and love between people
who have shared hard times
Philia (deep friendship)
is a playful and affectionate type of love.
Ludus (playful love)
This might mean
the love and excitement you feel when you have a crush on
someone or when you’re first getting to know them.
Ludus (playful love)
Ludus (playful love)
agape
The concepts of charity and sacrifice within _________ can be
thought of as the highest form of love particularly in Christianity.
agape
means long-lasting love. It’s a love that has endured
and matured over time, and has meaning.
Pragma (longstanding love)
This kind of love often involves compromises from both people
in the relationship, as well as patience and tolerance and the
focus is more on staying in love, rather than just falling in love
Pragma (longstanding love)
refers to self love or self compassion, and the Greeks
thought that loving yourself meant you had a wider capacity to
love others something we could all still learn from today when it
comes to self-care.
Philautia (love of the self)
refers to love between family members, like the love
found between parents and children, between siblings, or
between old friends that feel like family.
Storge (family love)
It builds a feeling of
safety, security and support for one another, as well as the joy
that comes from having shared memories
Storge (family love)
can be a jealous and obsessive kind of love. It often
involves feelings of codependency, or the feeling that another
person will heal and complete you
Mania (obsessive love)
