Ways of Defining Love

... thinking, he tried to think of ways to describe the indescribable. As our primitive relatives, Ug and Thora, sat in their cave, Ug probably compared his feelings in Thora's presence to the elation he felt tearing meat off a bone, or wallowing in mud. Modern man's version is not much closer. Comparison is still a favorite tool when defining love. My love is a rose, a summer's day, a smile ... . For the rejected, love is pain, a storm, a dying flower. Similes and metaphors flood angst filled teenage poetry, and the more reserved work of our elders. But how accurate can a comparison be? Lov...

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... God is not a name, but it is merely a concept. Humans are all selfish beings who love themselves more than anyone else. Yet this love is a paradox because people who fall in love begin to love another person more than themselves. Though this is a paradox, Kierkegaard makes sense of this. This love paradox is a living paradox and it happens all the time to people so it does ... , place, thing, or idea. When in the ethical sphere, we use our best intentions to make those meaningful specific choices. The second set of the factors of existence are possibility and necessity. Necessity is look...

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... of ways the term can be interpreted. At one extreme, many committed believers recognize only their own tradition as a religion, understanding expressions such as worship and prayer to refer exclusively to the practices of their tradition. Although many believers stop short of claiming an exclusive status for their tradition, they may nevertheless use vague or idealizing terms in defining religion, for example, "true love of ... God," or "the path of enlightenment." At the other extreme, religion may be equated with ignorance, ... fanaticism, or wishful thinking. By defining religion as ...

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... . Personally, I don't believe the word can really be defined, but rather, I categorize love into three different groups. The first kind of love being the love we share with our spouse or significant other. The second kind of love is the love that we share with our families. The third and final type of love is the love we feel for our close friends and life long relationships. I think that when ... doing next in their lives. That is not to say that I love them less when they went their separate ways. So when defining love, I tend to compare the feelings I have for the object of my affecti...

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... best, there were more than enough shortcomings throughout the film that left a lot to be desired. "...Lee challenges and critiques notions of black male sexuality while presenting a very typical perspective on black female sexuality" (Hooks, 5). Many people had issues with Nola's ... of eschewing the typical Jezebel stereotypes in his lack of character development because he simply doesn't have the tools or experiences at his disposal to create proper depth of character for Nola. The jezebel and the tragic mulatta have many things in common. In some ways, ... this is reflected in Nola ...

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... sparse room for argument, it does little to define what love is beyond the vague realm of wonderful. In this essay I will attempt the difficult task of defining love by looking at the history, explaining what love is not, and examining the uses of love and the results of that usage. Humans have this thing we call love, an unexplainable feeling of compassion. The term is used often in everyday worldly ... really blame us? We are the products of something that took eons of events to lead to, the creation of an intelligent race of beings on earth. That's about all I can come up with for lo...

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... and elaborating them and transforming them into new viewpoints. In this sense, secondly, Kant's critical philosophy is not only an apotheosis of the preceding Western ways of thinking and believing, but forms also (at least one of) the foundations of those intuitions, ideas, beliefs and convictions, which are dominantly present in our time. The first reconstruction, itself mainly concentrating on ... anthropocentric meaning. At the same time insofar as in pure aesthetical judgements no concepts of the discursive understanding are involved, those judgements can be seen more as a result of...

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... writes about the ongoing process in which the heart is strengthened and weakened by life's predicaments, the situations that cause the heart to swing open and closed, and the different ways in which the heart experiences suffering. Jane Hirshfield considers her life with acceptance, admiring the wholeness and grace that she acquires through everything that she experiences. In a sense, she is ... relations to the natural world .She describes the suffering, joy, and pain of the heart as something that no person can be exempt from. The heart is sensitive to the love, kindness, cruelty, and...

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... , friendship, and romance. Humans express love by their actions and experience love through feeling. The exact definition of love can be gotten only in a particular context. Most attempts to give a general definition to love only make it elusive. This paper is about my fascination in defining love from different perspectives. The origin of love dated some 1.8 million years ago (Fuentes 2002). Love evolves out of human need to bond with one ... definitions of love; many other definitions exist for love depending on the context. Different aspects of love can be classified by determining wh...

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