Or do we take more than we give? When we give love, do we expect to receive it in return in the same amount or do we give only what we think that we will get back?
2007-03-13 12:55:40 · 8 answers · asked by jtrevoxen 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The reality is we can only immediately experience our own love within our self. In our self the Will is positive, the Judgment is negative. The Judgment and the Will are not popularly described as coexisting experiences, but they do co-operate in the mature mind. If my concept for loving action from others is different from my mediated perception, then I doubt the others. It is very difficult not to be solipsist in questioning the emotional experiences in other selves. That is the finite side in human Spirit, doubt. All else is infinite in Spirit. The question is insane for attempting to quantify that which has no measure nor matter. It is a good question. The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/sl_v.htm#SL68
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Beyond this point then we need not go: immediate knowledge is to be accepted as a fact. Under these circumstances examination is directed to the field of experience, to a psychological phenomenon. If that be so, we need only note, as the commonest of experiences, that truths which we well know to be results of complicated and highly mediated trains of thought present themselves immediately and without effort to the mind of any man who is familiar with the subject. The mathematician, like everyone who has mastered a particular science, meets any problem with ready-made solutions which presuppose most complicated analyses: and every educated man has a number of general views and maxims which he can muster without trouble, but which can only have sprung from frequent reflection and long experience. The facility we attain in any sort of knowledge, art, or technical expertness, consists in having the particular knowledge or kind of action present to our mind in any case that occurs, even, we may say, immediate in our very limbs, in an outgoing activity. In all these instances, immediacy of knowledge is so far from excluding mediation, that the two things are linked together — immediate knowledge being actually the product and result of mediated knowledge.
2007-03-13 13:40:02 · answer #1 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These days it seems to me that most people take more than they give. Ideally when we truly give love, we do not expect anything in return.
2007-03-13 13:14:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anashuya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That really depends on the individuals involved. You might think you're doing an equal amount, but the person you may be involved with might think that you're either doing too much, or vice versa. That's why communication is necessary; to fine-tune it.
2007-03-13 13:01:19 · answer #3 · answered by knight2001us 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i can only speak for me. but i try to give as much as i take. i give love to all even those who don't return it. but its hard at times and at times i do take more then i give but at other times i give way more then i take so i think in the end its hopefully pretty damn even.
2007-03-13 13:00:32 · answer #4 · answered by ~*~AmethystMoonBeams~*~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Giving love is like planting seeds. Give away as much as you possibly can - you will reap more than you could ever need.
2007-03-13 13:05:21 · answer #5 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chris Farley asked Paul McCartney the same question - since Paul wrote it in one of his songs. And Paul says 'Yes'.
2007-03-13 13:34:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on who your talking about! Me personsonally, I am not in love so I cant say...peace!
2007-03-13 13:03:03 · answer #7 · answered by Littlemiss Me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is such a hard ?
2007-03-13 13:39:11 · answer #8 · answered by Lucy G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋