Theory Of Love Research Paper

Improved Essays
This paper will prove that love is continually sought among humans. Love, a term lightly used in the common world today is not simply a descriptive word to use for something we like. There is a deeper meaning and a more direct use of the word, and the idea. Nothing is more important than love, and no subject than it is so often misused. In its deeper sense love is often looked upon as a Christian or moral viewpoint and not something that can or should be applied outside of that to the common world. In this paper I will prove that to be wrong. Undeniably, love is not as simple as it may seem. In today’s culture all people want something that will make their life better. A human want however is not simply just the desire for a tangible good, …show more content…
Using the theory explained above we are able to come to a conclusion about love. Love is something that we want to make our lives better, and we are unable to fully understand it. Being that we do not fully understand love and only have a finite view upon it, we always seek more. If we did fully understand love and have an infinite knowledge about it we would not need to love or be loved. There are no humans on earth that lack the ability to love or be loved; therefore, love is not fully understood by any human, so love is sought by …show more content…
I can tell you one thing for sure, it is not the feeling we have for flappy birds. C.S. Lewis describes the different meanings of love very well in one of his books, The Four Loves. The first love Lewis describes is supernatural love, or agape. This love is described as infinite love. For example Christ lived in this infinite love when he walked upon this earth. Agape is the form of love that we always strive towards, but being as it is infinite we are never able to fully understand it. The second form of love Lewis describes is storge. Storge is a human’s natural affection for something, or his pronounced way of liking something. This is the form, of the word love, that many use today. For example one might say, “I love my car,” or “I love the sunrise in the morning.” This is a loose use of the word love, and is wrongly used especially in English. Moving on, third, Lewis describes love as eros. Eros is a natural sexual desire, and is the form of love many times had between a husband and a wife. Similar to eros in a sense is philia. Like eros, philia is a form of love humans have for one another, but is limited to friendship. Storge, eros, and philia, the three natural loves, are all great and filled with meaning, but they do not compare to the power of agape love. Being finite loves, these natural loves all have limitations, but they all point toward agape, and often are capable of opening the door of desire for unconditional love. In English of

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    Definition Of Love Essay

    • 2074 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Love Love is a tremendous aspect of our everyday life. We hear love in music, we watch shows over love on television, we witness love in our everyday lives, and we feel it ourselves with the special people close to us. I believe love is necessary for humanity. Love offers us a purpose and motivation to please the ones we prominently admire.…

    • 2074 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I believe love at first sight is not possible. When a person thinks that they've fallen in love at first sight, they are just in love with the idea or image of the person. The first thing a person sees is the looks, you can't see their personality. They don't hold a sign with everything about them on it. In "Romeo and Juliet" the lovers believed they were so in love that they even died together.…

    • 251 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Great Gatsby Love is a strange and undefinable emotion, the concepts and ideas about love are very broad, but one thing is not: It is powerful. Love makes people vulnerable, it may seem like a bullet that pierces through your perpetuity, but what is a person without vulnerability. People are born from that passion and that is why life is an endless conquest in pursuit of that same love. The feel of it is what makes a human a human. All rationality and sanity go out the window and one is left in their original state, almost like an animal of instinct.…

    • 610 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Making love has centuries of dramatic stories and myths surrounding it. The consequence is that you go into the act of having an intercourse for the first time with unreasonable expectations. This leads to quite a few physical and emotional complications. Here are the answers to some questions that might be on your mind and a few things which you can reasonably expect from your first sexual encounter. Will it be painful?…

    • 284 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In June 2016, a man shot 49 people at a gay nightclub. The terror attack had such a horrific outcome that at the time it was the worst attack on the United States since 9/11, both attacks rooted in hatred. In the literary works, Symposium by Plato and Metamorphoses by Ovid, the narrators contemplate whether love acts as the disease or remedy for society and the individual. These themes still have an importance in today's society, as acts of hatred still permeate through the fabric of humanity tearing apart any hope for universal peace and happiness. By studying these ancient texts, a fuller understanding of love and how to apply it to modern life can aid in eradicating bigger societal issues, such as the bigotry that caused the mass shooting…

    • 974 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Note: All three titles have been previously published, but never as a complete set. Love Revealed When Lord Raymond Tarkenton, the Earl of Heathington realizes that his masked lover and Lady Katherine Drummond are one and the same, he must find a way to convince her that they are bound together by more than the straps at her wrists and the contract they signed. He must reveal himself and his love to her. But will she accept him for more than a sexual escape.…

    • 245 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    To an individual love is a sensation of transforming rather than remaining stagnant – and this metamorphic emotion is not limited only to romantic love. The world revolves around a lot of platonic and self-love, too. Love is subtle, silent, and delicate; and in its beginnings it can be drowned out easily by attachment, fear, and especially lust. Love is powerful – powerful enough to shatter the dirty habits a person bears. Desire – or lust – is reckless.…

    • 1005 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A wise individual once said, "love is the most beautiful thing to have, hardest thing to earn, and most painful thing to lose” (“Things We Say”). Such a powerful emotion as love, or lack thereof, has made prominent appearances in the minds of people throughout the ages. It has influenced the social norms of societies over the years, as well as unified people through shared experience. Love is the driving force behind the human emotional experience and that is a notion that has held true through the Elizabethan and modern eras. In contrast, attitudes towards marriage and sex have changed drastically since Elizabethan times to modern times which can be illustrated through the messages in the works of art such as literature and movies through…

    • 1165 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Love Pottion Analysis

    • 137 Words
    • 1 Pages

    Stephanie In the story both portrayal love. They use a magic potion or something eles to make people call in love. At the end they find there true love. The potion just amde the one they were in love withb relize that they loved each other.…

    • 137 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Joselyng Cambisaca Professor John Roche English 101 December 2, 2015 Immaturity and Maturity of Love The essay written by Laura Kipnis talks about a universal concept, defined in different ways according to different ideologies and different perspectives. The author also points out how it is interpreted depending on culture the results of affection and attachment which produces a set of attitudes, emotions and experiences. Once, surfing the internet I came across with this quote “Love is a virtue representing all the love, kindness and compassion of human beings”. The author also argues that, fear of happiness leads people to all kinds of unhealthy reactions, symptoms efforts manipulation of their emotions and even actions…

    • 471 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Christian Romantic Love

    • 1313 Words
    • 6 Pages

    While it is necessarily to be attracted to one’s significant other in at least some sense, the weakness with only eros love is obvious. It is based on selfish desires, what benefits one rather than the other person. It is easy to love someone who is desirable and that makes one feel good about oneself, however, it can be a very "me-centric" love, "I love you because it makes me happy.” The problem with this love is that after awhile a person might not feel "in love" with the other person, while one might think that one has fallen out of love it may be that one never had any agape love in the first place, feelings along cannot be defined as true agape love as there may have been no real love in the first place. While eros is undeniable quite important in a romantic relationship over relying on pure emotion can set up the relationship for failure.…

    • 1313 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In DeVito’s book I found a really ingesting topic and it kind of inspired me a lot after reading it. Expressions of love is really different base on culture, gender, and Technology. “Since the begging of time, men and women have sought ways to understand and interpret a vague, yet central theme that colors the quality of human life is LOVE”( Mason, Watson J. ). When we express love, we develop a strong emotional attachment, anticipating our love to be returned. We all have answers to love and it reflect a similar influence.…

    • 1463 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Lost in Love Love is involuntary. Brain science tells us it is a drive like thirst. It is called attachment, and its part of the show in both romantic and all other kinds of love, including love within families. Babies form bonds with mother’s before they even enter the world. In making this comment, love is such a large model to only grasp one entity.…

    • 819 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Love is seeking to please of others for their benefits (Room 15; 2 1 Cor 14; 22). According to purpose of human life no matter who is controlling it is to live whoever is around to be love. Following are types of…

    • 1399 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Chemistry of Love Love is an intense feeling of deep affection towards a person, place, or thing. Oftentimes human beings refer to their hearts as the source of their emotions and deep affections, but that is not true. The heart is simply a hollow muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body. In fact, a human’s central nervous system in the brain is the cause of any and all affections. The misconception that the heart is the cause of human emotions evolved after the thirteenth and fourteenth century, when the heart became a symbol representing love in medieval art.…

    • 1394 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays

Related Topics