Love "Love" as a concept enters philosophy at one point through religion, particularly when the origin of the world is expressed as an act of procreation or the Creator is conceived of as loving his creation either as a whole or in part...
Sociologists agree that love is one of the most complex and elusive concepts to deal with from a scientific point of view. Indeed, they often point out that poets, novelists, and musical composers are much more adept at producing eloquent expressions...
A boy’s love is water in a sieve. (Spanish) A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without love. (Chinese) A heart in love with beauty never grows old. (Turkish) A long love, a severe bondage. (German) A lovelorn cook over-salts...
Love [addendum] Since the middle of the twentieth century, analytic philosophers have taken diverse interests in love. Philosophers of mind have asked what kind of psychological state love is. A natural answer is that love is an emotion like any other....
Literary references, beginning with Chaucer, show that this term has been in use as an endearment since at least the fourteenth century. Originally it was used to a beloved person; in modern times, in Britain, it has become watered down into a friendly...
‘The stage is more beholding to Love than the life of man,’ wrote Shakespeare’s contemporary Bacon (1625), confirming the prevalence of heterosexual romantic love in literature. Bacon distinguishes three sorts of love: marital love,...
The word love has many different meanings in English, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something one would die for (patriotism, pair bonding). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an...
