Most of us love our family. why? does it fill some instinctual need in us or is it something we learn of is it both?
2006-06-20 13:13:39 · 11 answers · asked by Red Yeti 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
ah... you should read a little about arthur rimbaud. he doesn't think love exists. but i think love is all over. it's physical AND spriritual. i thought love was different for certain people. like you love your family and the love for your partner. love is still love between the two groups, it shouldn't be different. it took me a while to understand that. from time to time, i still go back to my old thinking that loving my family is different from loving my partner. it's not and it shouldn't be. i hope that helps. good luck and have a great day!
2006-06-20 13:17:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
How We Learn to Love :
... Love Is Indispensable
...... How to Develop Genuine Love
......... The Noblest Kind of Love
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/7/1/article_01.htm
HUMANS--Just Higher Animals? :
... Humans-Who Are We?
...... In the Image of God or Beast?
......... Looking Up, Not Down, for Answers
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1998/6/22/article_01.htm
God Cares - How You Can Be Sure:
Is God Responsible for Our Problems?
God Really Cares About You
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/7/1/article_01.htm
2006-06-20 13:43:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its both...learned....
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
—Plato
The Republic, 360 B.C.
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
—Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Love does not consist of gazing at one another, but in looking outward in the same direction.
—Antoine de Saint Exupery
Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
—Ken Kesey
and instinctual
Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
—W. Somerset Maugham
A Writer's Notebook, 1949
Love is like pi—natural, irrational, and VERY important.
—Lisa Hoffman
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
—Robert Frost
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
Plato
2006-06-20 17:06:46 · answer #3 · answered by sparkalittlefire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Instinct, Ive seen people act like they hate each other all day. But when something really bad happens, everyone wants to be the first one to help.
2006-06-20 13:21:26 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think love comes from deep within the soul, the true fifth element.
2006-06-20 13:17:30 · answer #5 · answered by MindStorm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it's more emotional than anything else. We long for connections. We long to be cared for and to care about someone. We want someone to find us to be valuable. We want to love and be loved, it's an emotional need.
2006-06-20 14:44:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is natural.
Forget about passion and romance; love is life.
Love is experimented through any action that stimulates life.
2006-06-20 17:46:57 · answer #7 · answered by Aritmentor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...it's a need.we cause everything...we need 2 love.there's no reason...we don't need any reason to love.we just love or we don't.
2006-06-20 13:20:23 · answer #8 · answered by burda a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it keeps us firmly in a hell called Earth
2006-06-20 13:19:28 · answer #9 · answered by Oleg B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it's imaginary.
2006-06-20 13:18:19 · answer #10 · answered by kashious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋