Notions of Love Flashcards
1
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ancient greeks notion of love
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eros
2
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eros
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the creator, begins life, creation story, understand the beginning
3
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understanding of love – greek
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- Not relationship love, it is the arrival of being reality
- Erotic, desire and feeling of passion
- Love was something that happened to you
4
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original eros
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- cupid
- struck you in the heart with a bow and arrow
5
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aphrodite
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playing with your heart
6
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plato (Diotimia)
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- Moves away from the idea of love that eros/gods played with your heart- love is not a god/goddess
- something beautiful, desire for what is good – not just physical beauty, beauty of good, the desire for virtue and heroic acts
7
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Diotima notion on love
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- Love between what we lack and want – what we admire in someone else is what we lack in ourselves (passions, talents) – beauty is the wholeness
- Love is found in nature – resources and poverty
- Love is an action
8
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judaic traditions
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- The call to love
- Love one’s neighbour
- Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with your soul, and all your might
- emphasis on love of God and neighbour
9
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Buber’s I and Thou
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- Judaic tradition
- I-it
- I-Thou
10
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I-it
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an object, there for my purpose, serve me
11
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I-Thou
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looking at the person, talents are recognized, mutual respect – only love happens here
12
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christianity
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- God is love
- Those who abide in love, abide in God
- humans seek relationship with a loving God
13
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types of love
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- gift love
- need love
14
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gift love
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God’s love for us– Agape (unconditional), parental love
15
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need love
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human love, conditioned - we need love
