LOVE

• Norms are set of traits and behaviours that society considers good and acceptable. The society expects us to behave the way it is used to.
• • Dating back to the Proto-Indo-European word leubh, meaning "care" or "desire"
• • it later evolved into Latin with the word lubet, which went on further to become libet. Libet is also the father of the word libido, which is connected to love
• • lubet/libet- please/want/feel like
• Philosophy of Love ( Soren Kierkegaard )

  • Preferential Love - another form of self love 

          ( desire gratify our needs, pleasure )
• Philosophy of Love ( Soren Kierkegaard )

  • Non-preferential Love - not fueled by passion, non erotic & not selfish )
• Philosophy of Love ( Soren Kierkegaard )

  LOVE - is tragic rather than beautiful
• Philosophy of Love ( Buddhist & Stoic )

  Romantic love is true- happiness
• Philosophy of Love ( Buddhist & Stoic )

  • Romantic love is not true- it will bring suffering
• • FEAR OF SEPARATION is a form of suffering.
• 1. Loving Kindness- bring other person happiness
• 1. Compassion - capacity to have concern with other persons suffering
• Joy- fun together not sadness
• Inclusiveness - 2 become 1 ( willing to carry each burden )
• The first kind of love is Eros, named after the Greek god of love and fertility. Eros represents the idea of sexual passion and desire
• The second type of love is philia, or friendship. The ancient Greeks valued philia far above eros because it was considered a love between equals.
• As Aristotle put it, philia is a “dispassionate virtuous love” that is free from the intensity of sexual attraction. 
• Mania love is a type of love that leads a partner into a type of madness and obsessiveness.
• Agape is what some call spiritual love. It is an unconditional love, bigger than ourselves, a boundless compassion, an infinite empathy. It is what the Buddhists describe as “mettā” or “universal loving kindness.”