Running Head: What is Love 1 What is Love? Name: Course: Due Date: Name of Instructor: What is Love? What is Love? By definition, love can be said to be a variety of different feelings, body, and mental states as well as attitudes that range from interpersonal affection to pleasure (BARRACK, 2013). It can also refer to emotions of strong attraction and even at times personal attachments. In other terms, love can as well be a virtue that represents human kindness, compassion, and affection which in most cases is seen as the selfless loyal and general benevolent concern for the good well being of one another. Also, love describes the passionate and affectionate actions towards oneself, other human beings as well as animals. Ancient philosophers group love into four groups which are • Kinship or familiarity • Friendship • Romantic love • Divine/self-emptying love As it is now, modern authors have been able to distinguish love further into different varieties which are • Limerence • Amount de soil • Courtly love In the Abrahams religion, love has other additional religious and spiritual meanings. Therefore, due to this diversity of its uses and meanings, it generally makes it difficult to define love consistently. Also, the complexity of feelings involved compared to other emotional states 2 What is Love? 3 makes it hard to define it. In its various forms, love therefore acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships. Owing this t ...
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