Margaret Farley Concept Of Love

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Margaret Farley talks about in her book the Personal Commitments, about one concept in chapter seven; this concept is “just love”. I found her definition of “just’ love very interesting; at first I wasn’t sure about her definition but after continuing reading the chapter I started buying into this concept. When analyzing this type of love, she makes one good point by stating “it is important to that our knowledge of human persons generally, as well as of individual persons, obviously differs and changes, for our interpretation of human experience is both historical and social” (103-104). I really like this point because from our class discussions we have learned through several other authors that there is really no one right or “normal” marriage

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