least bit‚ but the key theme for King’s philosophy of a person was agape. King defined agape‚ as “distinct from Eros and Philia — romantic love and friendly affection — as an understanding‚ redeeming good will for all men. It is an overflowing love which is purely spontaneous‚ unmotivated‚ groundless‚ and creative. It is not set in motion by any quality or function of its object. Agape is disinterested love.” King described agape as an overspill of God’s love within humans. God’s love stands as the
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that the central theme of Romeo and Juliet is love. Love drives the play‚ as the prologue introduces the audience to "a pair of star-crossed lovers." (Prologue‚ l.6) The definition of love is established as: eros‚ a union that brings self-fulfilment; philia‚ brotherly and sisterly love; and agape‚ wholly selfless love. Saint Augustine once said that‚ "It is better to have loved and lost‚ than never to have loved at all." Truly‚ the experience of love is unlike any other and every human should experience
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classifies love into four types: storge or affection or fondness – the type that’s natural and mostly brought about by familiarity‚ common in families and people who have crossed paths merely by chance; philia or the friendly love; eros or the romantic love – the love in the sense of being in love; and lastly‚ agape‚ the greatest of them all; it’s unconditional‚ brought forth no matter the circumstances. I have chosen three short stories; each representing a different kind of love. The first one‚ falling
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Caravaggio paintings of the conversion of Paul. The last main point that Keenan makes about love is the “threefold love”‚ stemming from agape‚ eros‚ and philia. From the reading we learn what each type of love is‚ but to bring this full circle to Keenan’s point about union defining love‚ all three types of love are driven by union and themselves united. Agape‚ the love for God‚ is
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the Greek language‚ there are four different words for showing affection to an individual. Agápē is the most commonly used Greek word‚ which literally translates to ‘brotherly love‚’ ‘love of god for a man of god‚’ or ‘to will the good of another.’ The other three are érōs‚ philía‚ storgē‚ all have different meanings that people today‚ use with just one word. Eros is ‘love‚ mostly of the sexual passion‚’ philia‚ ‘affectionate regard of friendship‚ mostly among equals‚’ and storge‚ ‘love‚ affection;’
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idea of Christian love as presented in the Bible is mainly based upon the concept of agape love. Agape is the epitome of Christian love. It is an unconditional love for others which expects nothing in return‚ it is both a chosen and committed love. This concept appears in the Bible when Jesus said‚ "By this all will know that you are My disciples‚ if you have love for one another" (John 13:35). This shows us that agape love is the unconditional and abundant love of God. Christian love differs from the
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explored‚ and the three words of love and their affects on society are followed. In the first speech‚ which explore Eros‚ the sexual parts of a relationship‚ or a relationship that is only physical. Eros‚ according to Plato‚ in Phaedrus‚ is linked to Lysias‚ which lectures on sex without the passionate innuendoes of a relationship. In other words‚ Lysias focuses on the non-lover. Philia‚ which is the second word of love‚ means deep friendship; with this word‚ Socrates’ first speech‚ and that entails
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may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans‚ one ’s self or animals.[3] Ancient Greeks identified four forms of love: kinship or familiarity (in Greek‚ storge)‚ friendship (philia)‚ sexual and/or romantic desire (eros)‚ and self-emptying or divine love (agape).[4][5] Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of romantic love.[6] Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states.[7] This diversity of uses and meanings combined
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of love because love can teach us what the real life is. Love is a factor that drives being to live; without love‚ one would lose spirit‚ emotion and feelings. Plato’s theory about eros that had a great impact on Tillich‚ and Tillich considered eros as one of love that as important as others: epithymia‚ philia‚ and agape. Although there are four kinds of love‚ they have something in common: “Love is the drive towards the unity of the separated” (Tillich‚ 1945‚ p25). In other word‚ love is the reason
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hesitation in using the same word. Based on Greek terms‚ Rollo May says that there are four classifications of love: sex‚ eros (the drive to procreate)‚ philia (family or brotherly love)‚ and agape (divine love). Solomon immediately dismisses sex as a lesser ‘kind’ of love‚ leaving us with the last three‚ but he then continues by stating that the terms eros‚ philia and agape are confused even in ancient Greek and can be made to mean practically anything if cast in the right light. He calls upon the
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