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> For instance "Amanda" is "she who must be loved." This is probably a joke but it still is an absurd category to think about. How can anyone be compelled (by
by MichaelZuo 4y ago
> For instance "Amanda" is "she who must be loved."
This is probably a joke but it still is an absurd category to think about.
How can anyone be compelled (by what force?) to love someone else?
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoMust can mean "inevitable" as well as "required."
- dmreedy 4y agoIndeed. For a different angle on the nuance, you will often see the gerundive translated as "worthy of". Miranda, worthy of beholding. Amanda, worthy of love.
- lo_zamoyski 4y ago"Must" can mean "required" or "to have an obligation to". Thus, for example, we are morally obligated to love our children. But "love" here is not meant in the desiring sense of love (eros, another Greek word) in which one desires something for one's own objective good, or even in the modern squishy sense of having fleeting pleasant or affectionate feelings for. Rather, something like agape (still another Greek word) is meant as parents raise their children primarily for the good and benefit of the children and the common good, not their own self-interest or their own pleasure, even if those elements are present or result secondarily (i.e., the pleasure of selfless acts is not the motive behind selfless acts for that would render them no longer selfless and the pleasure or liberty from self that could follow would not obtain).
- MichaelZuo 4y agoMorally obligated by whom? There still has to be some external force.
- denton-scratch 4y agoI think "must" is too strong. It's better as "she who is to be loved". You can interpret it as implying an obligation or compulsion; but I don't think obligation or compulsion are direct meanings of this verb-form.