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My immediate reaction was that the appropriate word is "eros". A variant of the Greek divisions is the one in CS Lewis's book "The Four Loves": affection, frie
by graemep 2y ago
My immediate reaction was that the appropriate word is "eros".
A variant of the Greek divisions is the one in CS Lewis's book "The Four Loves": affection, friendship, eros and charity.
- lo_zamoyski 2y agoWhat is love? Love is anything that advances the good of a person. So there are, at base, only two kinds of love: act for the sake of one's own good, and act for the sake of the good of another. The first is called eros, the second is called agape. Everything else either isn't love per se, though may be something experienced in the course of love (like some affect), or is a particular determination of these loves conditioned by the proper good in view. Thus, to desire food and to desire knowledge are both manifestations of eros, but the good desire is different. They perfect or satisfy different aspects of your being.
- graemep 2y agoI think it is useful to further distinguish different types of love of another, because they are experienced differently. I think you are misuing"eros" there. Eros IS one form of love of another. I think you mean "philautia".