Richard Swinburne, William Lane Craig, and Stephen Davis have argued that love means giving oneself away, reaching out to another rather than centering wholly within oneself. What are your thoughts?
I think that love is a rather complicated state of mind toward different human beings or objects and that it can be defined in various ways. The definition by Swinburne, Craig, and Davis is one of the best ones. There are other witty definitions (quotes taken from http://www.the-philosophy.com/definition-love-philosophy):
・Plato: "Any general aspiration towards the good things and to happiness, that’s the Love."
・Tolstoy: "Love has always based on the renunciation of individual property."
・Descartes: "Love is a passion that can arise in us without in any way we could see if the object that causes it is good or bad."
・Spinoza: "Love is nothing but a joy accompanied by an external cause."
・Schopenhauer: "Love is a trap for men to perpetuate the species."
For me, it is totally doing something right thing on the right way with heart without any expectation.
Wonder what it is !!!! Prof MacGregor ...
Fantasy : yes it is getting lost with someone like the world does not exist ...
Realistic : it hits and it hits hard ...
I know it is true and real , saw it in my Grand-Dad (my Mom's father) . The only person he loved was my grandmother...
It needs two to Tango – Popular saying.
"It is not the song of the singer alone, there has to be two
One sings with the voice, the other with a heart in tune!" – Rabindranath Tagore. [Rhymes better in original Bengali]
“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.” Karl Marx
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