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A Definition of Love

Adam Hilstad May 12, 2021 at 23:49 1600 views 2 comments
Love is the rational faith that selflessness properly produces selfishness, and that reciprocally, selflishness properly produces selflessness. Love is simply faith in this reciprocity. Self-love is selfishness out of this faith, while love of others is selflessness out of this faith.

Agree or disagree?

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alan1000 May 16, 2021 at 14:27 #537102
Not really sure.

Love is the irrational faith that selflessness properly produces selfishness, and that reciprocally, selflessness properly produces selfishness. Love is simply faith in this reciprocity. Self-love is selflessness out of this faith, while love of others is also selflessness out of this faith.

Unless of course one is motivated entirely from selfishness.
Apollodorus May 16, 2021 at 16:48 #537145
Quoting Adam Hilstad
Agree or disagree?


Sort of agree, tentatively.

However, given that love is said to involve a subject (lover) and an object (loved), perhaps it depends on the relation between the two?

What about love of truth, goodness or beauty?

And if we take Platonism or other monistic traditions which hold that all is One Reality, then love of the other would ultimately be love of oneself.

Is that selfishness or selflessness, or both and neither?