Is love worth life?
2007-02-24 09:23:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Certainly.
I should think the most apparent, most compelling case would be if it was a necessary sacrifice in order to see the love of one's child succeed..
Far nobler, would be to give one's life for two others to succeed in love and I can imagine such... and find it in great literature... and I can also imagine how more foolish it may also be to do so.. and again I find it in great literature...
*Maeterlinck's drama Aglavaine et Sélysette (1896)... Méléandre, who has married the sweet, timid Sélysette, begins to love the noble Aglavaine, a love Aglavaine returns. Theirs is a pure love which raises them above the common lot. But Sélysette suffers from not possessing Méléandre's heart alone. The tender creature, full of abnegation, resolves to sacrifice herself for the happiness of her husband and Aglavaine. She leans so far out of the embrasures of an old turret that a crumbling part of the wall collapses and Sélysette falls, not into the sea as she had thought, but onto the sand of the beach. Wounded, she is carried to the house, and even on the verge of death she is unselfish; wishing to spare them remorse, she tries to pretend to Méléandre and Aglavaine that her fall from the tower was accidental.
In this drama ... all the characters are noble and generous. Both Aglavaine and Méléandre feel that a happiness that is purchased at the price of another's suffering is fugitive and vain and, if they do not feel less irresistibly drawn to one another, they do not by any means yield to low desires but to a powerful, spiritualized attraction. They struggle against fate, a struggle all the more painful as they well suspect that fraternal love will ultimately be impossible and that everything will lead them to the complete union which they flee as a sin.
These words of Aglavaine are beautiful: if somebody must suffer, it should be us. There are a thousand duties, but I think one is rarely mistaken in the attempt to relieve a weaker creature by taking its suffering upon oneself..*
So, King of Hearts, tell me... what do you believe is possible in life, in love?
2007-02-27 15:48:50 · answer #1 · answered by Bender 6 · 10⤊ 0⤋
love is the ultimate natural high that someone can feel, if you can have it consistently it takes away the pressure from the normal stresses in life. for centuries people sacrificed themselves for love. whether it is they love someone that loves them or someone who will never love them back. we see it in all the love stories the many different scenerios although those are fiction there is truth behind each. in the end of it all, do you truly love the one you are considering sacrificing yourself for? would you be willing to die for them? sometimes this can be literal but sometimes that part can be figurative, such as giving up being with them so that they can be happy even though you are miserable. there are many variables that can mean the same thing. but it is like the very old knowlegde that one thing must end for another to start. i wish the best with your choice and decisions in this case.
2007-02-24 10:34:28 · answer #2 · answered by snow1378 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to see someones love succeed? not sure what you mean,,,,,,, and do you make sacrifices in your life,, or to give up your life? sorry,,,, its just a little confusing,,,
you can make sacrifices for the one you love,,,, if its absolutely necessary,,,, but many of the things we say we do in the name of love, are not necessary,,,,,, often you can have/do what you want, and still support your love and the one you love,,,,,,
2007-02-24 09:34:31 · answer #3 · answered by dlin333 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the love but I think usually it is worth life.
2007-02-24 16:48:18 · answer #4 · answered by Adelaide V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are cases where a father who loved his family but had little to give them would get a lot of life insurance and then get into an accident that didnt look like suicide to give financial support to his loved ones when he had no other way of giving them so much.
Drastic, but his family got the cash.
2007-02-24 09:32:48 · answer #5 · answered by Father Ted 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's love is worth life indefinitely, but human love is worth human life only and only if the human sacrificing his or her life sees it at such, not what others determine.
2007-02-24 09:27:31 · answer #6 · answered by Kiara 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is exactly what I'm doing, and I do believe that true love is worth life.
2007-02-24 10:48:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glory be and behold, whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil. while considering that, i say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. lest ye shall not forget, morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
2007-02-24 09:28:44 · answer #8 · answered by mezizany 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
guy could make efforts for fulfillment (happiness) yet could make No efforts 4 peace and contentment . fulfillment (happiness) won't come via itself as in case of peace,contentment. you may make efforts for happiness/fulfillment-- because of the fact it belongs to the outdoors (aggressive international- The happiness (fulfillment) that comes via having funds, the exhilaration that comes via nutrition, via love, via potential, respectability -- those issues in no way come as donations, presents. One has to paintings difficult, warfare for them; one should be aggressive and violent--as a result one has to make an incredible attempt to income it. and then too what's won isn't of lots use. All.our happiness,successs exists basically interior the wish(s) and whilst wish/needs are fulfilled there is same discomfort,sadness and not something
2016-10-01 22:22:04 · answer #9 · answered by baumgarter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a woman has given consent to receive her husbands seed, she has willingly sacrificed her life to give from her own that the child may live.
2007-02-24 09:31:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋