Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Mortimer Adler
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual... →
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and... →
Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual... →
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer... →
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.