RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Philia
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Quiz: chapter 1 and 2; religion the basics. There are 4 qualities to love: caring: to care for the well-being of another the one we wish to unite with, share: to give constructively with someone else. To share your interests, resources, skills, wealth, compassion: responsibility: if you love someone who you have a commitment to you will take responsibility for them, respect: to love means to respect. To respect someone means to take seriously another"s distinct qualities and to accept them for who and what they are. Being alone: how to resolve: conformity looking like those around them, wearing what they wear, doing what they do, orgiastic state (fromm) seeking a state of uniting with each other not through love/ sex. Trying to have a unity with someone that you can"t otherwise feel. Masturbate naughty: artistic creativity one way to reduce the feeling of isolation, suicide some people feel it"s better to take their life then suffer isolation.
