Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal interest.
In the context of the philosophy of love is a good trait that inherits all goodness, feelings of compassion and affection. Another opinion, love is an action/active activity carried out by humans for other objects, in the form of self -sacrifice, empathy, attention, affection, helping, obeying words, following, obedient, and want to do whatever the object wants.
Examples are men/men who love women/women. Example Mr. Ivan as a man, loves Mama Ivan as a woman.
Love also means liking or likes an object be it a real object, or not real.
DEFINITION
Love is a positive feeling and given to humans or other objects. Can be experienced by all creatures. The use of words of love is also influenced by development during the time. The words always change the meaning according to responses, understanding and use in different situations, positions and generations. The nature of love in the 21st century sense may be different from the past centuries. The expression of love may be used to vent the following feelings:
Feelings for the family
Feelings for friends, or Philia
Feelings that are romantic or also called romance
Feelings that are only a will, desire for lust, or love Eros
Feelings of others or also called affection or agape
Feelings about or towards themselves, called narcissism
Feelings for a particular concept
Feelings for his country or patriotism
Feelings towards the nation or nationalism
TERMINOLOGY
The use of the term love in Indonesian and Malaysian society is more influenced by love words in English. Love is used in all practices and meanings for Eros, Philia, Agape and Storge. However, more appropriate words are still found in the Serantau language and described as follows:
Love is more likely to romantic, romance and lust, Eros.
Unfortunately that is more inclined to friends and family, Philia.
Love that is more likely to family and God, agape.
The spirit of Nusa is more likely to patriotism, nationalism and narcissism, Storge.
ETYMOLOGY
Some languages, including Indonesian or Malay when compared to some of the latest languages in Europe, are seen more vocabulary in expressing this concept. Including ancient Greek, which distinguishes between three or more concepts: Eros, Philia, and Agape.
Love is a feeling of sympathy that involves deep emotions. According to Erich Fromm, there are five conditions for realizing love, namely:
Feeling
Introduction
Responsibility
Attention
Mutual respect
Erich Fromm in his best -selling book states that the four symptoms: care, responsibility, respect, knowledge appear all in a balanced person who loves. Bullshit if someone says love children but never take care of and there is no responsibility to the child. While responsibilities and care without real respect & without a sense of wanting to know more deeply will plunge parents, teachers, clerics, and other individuals in an authoritarian attitude.
Types of Love
Like many types of lovers, there are many types of love. Love is in all all human culture. Because of this cultural difference, the definition of love is also difficult to determine. See Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
The expression of love can include love for 'soul' or mind, law and organization, body love, love of nature, love of food, love money, love learning, love, love, love, and others. Love is more directed to the concept of abstract, more easily experienced than explained.
The love that already exists always needs to be maintained so that it can be maintained its beauty
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