RE103 Lecture 2: RE103Lecture2
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Here, in israel"s love for its god, we see the paradigm example of the search for what, in chapter 1, i called ontological rootedness". Love involved the faith that the loved-one can affirm, nourish, and anchor out being (and so is always accompanied by the fear that he will disappear, or will fail to exercise this power, or will do so destructively. Ontological rootedness is such an ambiguous love, an abstract concept. Simon may argues that love is about a desire for ontological rootedness. Love makes us feel real, rooted and that you have a place. Love for may in itself is not always a stable thing, we only love out of fear. An affectionate love beyond the physical in which the sexual element does not enter. The most basic example of a platonic love is a deep, non-sexual friendship between two hetersexual individuals of the opposite sex.
