PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Real Union, Empirical Evidence, Scientific Method
12 Aug 2020
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Love: to desire and seek a good. Love of concupiscence/self-interested love: loving an object because of its usefulness or as a source of pleasure. Love of friendship: loving another person for that person"s own sake. It is possible to love others only with a love of concupiscence, thereby loving them as useful or pleasurable to you. Only by loving another unselfishly with a love of friendship can there be a true friendship, which begins when the other reciprocates with the same kind of love. Friendship: the union of affection and real union brought about by love. Longing: fundamentally, a lover wills that the beloved continues to live and flourish. Benevolence: a lover wills the good to the beloved for the sake of the beloved. Beneficence: a lover actively seeks the good for the beloved. Delight: the presence of a friend is a source of joy. Concord: the unity of wills or hearts between two friends.
