Love

Love as Divine

Love as a Binding Force

Eros and Agape

Mythological Love Stories

Love as A source of Meaning

Love and the Human Experinece

  • seen as a divine or transcendent 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.

  • 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.
  • mythological love stories that have shaped our understanding of love, such as the tales of Cupid and Psyche, or the love stories in Greek mythology.
  • love has been considered a source of meaning and purpose in life.
  • Love often provides a reason for human existence and is associated with personal fulfillment.
  • love is a fundamental aspect of the human experience, touching on the idea that it is deeply ingrained in our psychology, culture, and history.
  • 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 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.
  • Love is benevolent and harmonious – a haven of peace.

Love transports us beyond the messy imperfections of the everyday world into a superior state of purity and perfection

  • Love redeems life’s losses and sufferings: it delivers us from them; gives them meaning; overwhelms them with its own value; and reconciles us with that highest good from which they express our separation.
  • The true and the good lie not beyond the individual subject’s experience
    5 but in an exploration of it. I