2006-07-14 01:53:27 · 17 answers · asked by siyaram d 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self-love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define.
The concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love.[1] Others maintain that love exists but is indefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature. Love is one of the most common themes in art. An unfinished debate about the authenticity of love as other-regard began with Friedrich Nietzsche's charge that love is merely an ideology constructed by the weak to mask "resentment" about their lack of power. Critics of Nietzsche's view find gratuitous his assumptions that self-interest and the "will to power" overshadow all other concerns.
2006-07-14 02:04:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the word LOVE has been corrupted to mean something like "like", it has lost its intended meaning.
When used in " I love oranges, apples and sweet corn", LOVE has been reduced to LIKE.
When used in " I love you", no one knows what it now means.
Does it mean, " I feel for you the same as I feel for oranges, apples and sweet corn"? or does it mean " I have an affection for you which transcends anything else in life"?
When our language is corrupted, many things about us are also corrupted because we use language to think with and therefore influence our behavior.
President Clinton said it when he said " It all depends upon what your definition of is is."
Has this answered your question of "What is Love?"
2006-07-14 02:12:13 · answer #2 · answered by Mr.Been there 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love as I understand is expression of one's emotional feelings for another living thing - be it human, animal or other living objects.
2006-07-14 02:04:56 · answer #3 · answered by Sami V 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although there are many ways of expressing it, love is always this one thing: leaving yourself to go toward another.
2006-07-14 04:17:34 · answer #4 · answered by Old Cowboy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the ability to post your question in the proper category. By the way, you don't have it right now...
2006-07-14 03:17:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Felling. When you like someone
2006-07-14 01:57:03 · answer #6 · answered by sillyboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electricity and positive energy.
2006-07-14 01:58:33 · answer #7 · answered by bereftcat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
love is feelings that can't trancribed
like DNA to replication it.
2006-07-14 02:01:57 · answer #8 · answered by kishan_86t 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing, I'm afraid. I'm learning that more and more each day.
2006-07-16 00:48:51 · answer #9 · answered by norman k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A four letter word comparable to damn, sh*t and f*ck.
2006-07-14 01:56:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋