THEO1016 Lecture Notes - The Four Loves
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January 21, 2014: these show the negative side of affection and leads to the point that affection produces happiness only if there is give and take and common decency, mrs. fidget. Woman who expresses extreme gift-love affection and who does so because she needs it. She lived for her family but in doing so she stood in the way of them and in her passing the family was able to enjoy themselves and were no longer hindered by her extreme gift-love. Needs to give and so needs to be needed. She takes away other independence and undermines autonomy in another person: the domestic rudesby, dr. quartz. Thinks he is worthy of universal love. This is a perversion of need-love, affection gone awry. He is greedy and likes to propagate disciples. Creates independence in others but then does not want them to use it.
