2006-12-09 01:53:24 · 13 answers · asked by ngudjohn 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Love Is Like Philosophy.
How You Take It Is the point.
2006-12-09 01:56:43 · answer #1 · answered by arsenalsalam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is the best example of what is known as an abstract noun in English. Abstract because it is a way of thinking based on general ideas rather than on particular things. For some love is possession, yet for others it is the act of NOT being possessed or possessing someone. I am sure there will be other answers to your question here, and you will be able to see how their answers reflect general ideas more than particular things. Perhaps all of the answers put together will equal the meaning of love.
2006-12-09 10:15:37 · answer #2 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ho boy! That's a subject for philosophers, not romantics such as myself. But I'll take a stab at it. Scientists and others will tell you that love is only a chemical reaction in your brain that is really only lust, physical attraction or infatuation. But I believe that love is a conscious choice we make after that initial blush of physicality, a choice to love. This involves all the things you hear in a wedding ceremony, only its not necessary to get married to hold love as a decision of your mind that you keep in your heart. Cherish, honor, put before all others, this is what love is, not some rule or even obligation. We love because we want to love, because in our mind we know it is what is real in our lives, regardless of how you feel or how your lover is acting toward you. Because its firmly fixed in your mind, not a chemical reaction, but a belief, you can love another person always, always renewing the fact of that love in your mind. Okay, make any sense? Well it has to me for a long time.
2006-12-09 10:07:45 · answer #3 · answered by Nightwriter21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me try and coin a philosophical definition....
Love is a spontaneous feeling of oneness towards another person in such a way that the boundary defining self is broadened to include that other person within it .... at its pinaccle the self merges into the virtual being of the loved one, the stage where supreme sacrifice can be made willinglly for the sake of love.
2006-12-09 10:04:33 · answer #4 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is the selfless feeling we have for others. We love by being kind, encouraging, a good listener. Love is being patient, humble and respectful. Love is a basic human need. We need to give love as well as receive love.
Love makes life worth living!
2006-12-09 10:12:03 · answer #5 · answered by Dream Angel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is a deep affection or affinity for a third party, which can be human, animal, an object, or a spiritual, intellectual or physical experience.
2006-12-09 09:59:18 · answer #6 · answered by WISE OWL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
love is feeling to love everyone or a love person.love can make a world all the best.love alwys in everybody heart to feeling good day.
2006-12-09 09:58:45 · answer #7 · answered by gigi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is a morally ambigious entity that allows some people to do kinky -hit without the necessary guilt factor
2006-12-09 10:01:52 · answer #8 · answered by Nicholas B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is an illusion.
Why?
So humans can distance themselves from the messy process of mating that nature has burdened them with.
2006-12-09 10:05:47 · answer #9 · answered by Panama Jack 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is a spirit, a condition of the heart, to think of another before yourself. It is not selfish, rude, harsh, self serving, but it is committment, loyalty, kind, gentle.
2006-12-09 09:58:22 · answer #10 · answered by No More Abuse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋