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Love - Coggle Diagram
Love
Love as Divine
- seen as a divine or transcendent force.
- God is love’ became inverted into ‘love is God’.
- It means that in cultures formed by the Christian tradition genuine love tends to get modelled on a certain picture of divine love, 4 whether or not we are Christians
Love transports us beyond the messy imperfections of the everyday world into a superior state of purity and perfection
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Love as a Binding Force
- Love is seen as a powerful and binding force that unites individuals and creates connections between people.
- This idea of love as a force that brings people together has strong historical and cultural roots.
- Love is unconditional: it is neither aroused nor diminished by the other’s value
5 or qualities; it is a spontaneous gift that seeks nothing for the giver.
- Love is fundamentally selfless: a disinterested concern for the flourishing of loved ones for their own sake.
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Eros and Agape
- The distinction between Eros, the passionate and erotic love, and Agape, the selfless and unconditional love.
- These two different forms of love have played significant roles in various religious and philosophical traditions.
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