the object (for lack of a better word) of their love doesn't know themselves?
2007-06-28 13:36:49 · 14 answers · asked by someone 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
A true lover loves a person for who they are into all they can be. Does anyone ever have complete knowledge of their self ?
2007-06-29 02:29:30 · answer #1 · answered by Fr. Al 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The person can love that person yes but as far as the other person loving them back would be quite difficult because of the fact that they do not know themselves and probably do not love themselves because of their inner problems....there will be problems to be worked out for both of them and really it is up to that person who loves the other to be a friend if they really care up to limit because they deserve the love that are giving to the other as well :))))
2007-06-28 21:00:06 · answer #2 · answered by Rita 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
To love and show deep affection or admiration for someone who doesn't see their full potantial as you do but you love them for who they are and pray that you can help them be all that they can be by amplifiying their self esteem/confidence and brainpower through share acceptance and encoragement and enlightenment, but sometimes a person can be destroyed by the light so its in deliverying that delicate balance of love. This and that only at the right time.
2007-06-28 21:50:52 · answer #3 · answered by Grateful Will 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes we can love them even more when they haven't got that sense of "self image." (As long as they're not totally confused & unpredictable!.) I loved someone like that. Over time, with natural, unplanned little comments on a pattern of things I'd observed, they gradually got to "know" themselves better, but not in the way I know myself--as I'm very introspective. This person spent more time being creative, & enjoying the beautiful things in life. Oh, yes! My very greatest love, who was quite capable of loving me as well. (You don't have to "know yourself" to know how to love.)
2007-06-29 01:59:56 · answer #4 · answered by Valac Gypsy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, we never know ourselves completely - or anyone else. But I believe one has to really know oneself, and the other, at least "well enough" to really love. But if the "other" doesn't know themselves at least "well enough", how can we know them truly at all? Then we're susceptible to wishful thinking, and projection - and the haphazards of who they may think themselves to be from time to time. I'd wait until they grow up. There's many a catastrophe born of the fantasies we project, and from that wishful thinking of "my love will change him/her".
2007-06-29 02:15:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a convoluted way of saying that one "accepts" another. Love has nothing to do with it. In the language of children, it is know as "unconditional love".
2007-06-28 21:37:15 · answer #6 · answered by guru 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If the object of your affection doesn't know themselves, that doesn't mean that you can't find something to love about them, only that they maybe aren't aware they have such qualities.....
Honestly put it very well.....
2007-06-28 21:12:58 · answer #7 · answered by beatlefan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. To make it more simple: say a person loves their pet snake. The snake can't love them back, so the love is one way.
2007-06-28 20:47:35 · answer #8 · answered by geessewereabove 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Interesting. As I believe love to be the prime example of inter-subjectivity, no. I don't think one can love another whom does not know he or her self.
2007-06-29 10:10:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You love that person for what you see in them, not for what they see in themselves.
2007-06-28 20:39:57 · answer #10 · answered by honestly 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋