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Single Idea 179
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Full Idea
Love is desire for perpetual possession of the good.
Gist of Idea
Love is desire for perpetual possession of the good
Source
Plato (The Symposium [c.384 BCE], 206a)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Symposium', ed/tr. Hamilton,W [Penguin 1951], p.86
A Reaction
Even the worst human beings often have lovers. 'Perpetual' is a nice observation.
The
56 ideas
with the same theme
[role of the feeling of love in moral behaviour]:
19941
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Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself
[Anon (Leviticus)]
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6327
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Do good to him who has done you an injury
[Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
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14177
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Love assists men in achieving merit and happiness
[Plato]
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176
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Love follows beauty, wisdom is exceptionally beautiful, so love follows wisdom
[Plato]
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179
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Love is desire for perpetual possession of the good
[Plato]
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5262
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Only lovable things are loved, and they must be good, or pleasant, or useful
[Aristotle]
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5263
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Most people want to be loved rather than to love, because they desire honour
[Aristotle]
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22582
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Spirit [thumos] is the capacity by which we love
[Aristotle]
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507
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Virtuous love consists of decorous desire for the beautiful
[Democritus (attr)]
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7894
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Hate is conquered by love
[Anon (Dham)]
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20851
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Virtuous men do not feel sexual desire, which merely focuses on physical beauty
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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6289
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Love your enemies
[Jesus]
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6292
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Love thy neighbour as thyself
[Jesus]
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13321
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Is anything sweeter than valuing yourself more when you find you are loved?
[Seneca]
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23357
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Knowledge of what is good leads to love; only the wise, who distinguish good from evil, can love
[Epictetus]
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18448
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We should avoid the pleasures of love, or at least, should not enact our dreams
[Porphyry]
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4348
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Love, and do what you will
[Augustine]
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2359
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Desire and love are the same, but in the desire the object is absent, and in love it is present
[Hobbes]
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7912
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Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship
[Rochefoucauld]
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4848
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Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause
[Spinoza]
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17217
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Love is joy with an external cause
[Spinoza]
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12958
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Love is pleasure in the perfection, well-being or happiness of its object
[Leibniz]
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23115
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We have no natural love of mankind, other than through various relationships
[Hume]
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21429
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The duty of love is to makes the ends of others one's own
[Kant]
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22071
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True love is ironic, in the contrast between finite limitations and the infinity of love
[Schlegel,F]
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23238
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If life lacks love it becomes destruction
[Fichte]
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22784
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Love is ethical life in its natural form
[Hegel]
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6927
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If you love nothing, it doesn't matter whether something exists or not
[Feuerbach]
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16003
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If people marry just because they are lonely, that is self-love, not love
[Kierkegaard]
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15998
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Perfect love is not in spite of imperfections; the imperfections must be loved as well
[Kierkegaard]
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20236
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Marriage upholds the idea that love, though a passion, can endure
[Nietzsche]
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20252
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Marriage is too serious to be permitted for people in love!
[Nietzsche]
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20263
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Fear reveals the natures of other people much more clearly than love does
[Nietzsche]
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24148
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If you love something, it is connected with everything, so all must be affirmed as good
[Nietzsche]
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14855
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Simultaneous love and respect are impossible; love has no separation or rank, but respect admits power
[Nietzsche]
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18319
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Love is the spiritualisation of sensuality
[Nietzsche]
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20113
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Friendly chats undermine my philosophy; wanting to be right at the expense of love is folly
[Nietzsche]
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18301
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We only really love children and work
[Nietzsche]
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21746
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Unlike hate, all desires can be satisfied by love
[Russell]
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24179
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We should never desire the immortality of the people we love
[Weil]
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23759
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Everything which originates in love is beautiful
[Weil]
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22233
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Love is the demand to be loved
[Sartre]
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19614
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Lovers are hateful, apart from their hovering awareness of death
[Cioran]
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21751
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Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself
[Quine]
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9252
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The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows
[Camus]
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22339
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Love is a central concept in morals
[Murdoch]
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22348
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Ordinary human love is good evidence of transcendent goodness
[Murdoch]
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22713
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Love is realising something other than oneself is real
[Murdoch]
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9235
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Rather than loving things because we value them, I think we value things because we love them
[Frankfurt]
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9237
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The paradigm case of pure love is not romantic, but that between parents and infants
[Frankfurt]
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9236
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Love can be cool, and it may not involve liking its object
[Frankfurt]
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9239
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I value my children for their sake, but I also value my love for them for its own sake
[Frankfurt]
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23962
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Lovers adopt the interests of their beloved, rather than just valuing them
[Solomon]
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23117
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Love should be partial, and discriminate in favour of its object
[Kekes]
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23119
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Sentimental love distorts its object
[Kekes]
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24167
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Love is a mutual reciprocation, not just a desire for something
[Cochrane]
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