Philosophy of Love Quiz 1

The word "philosophy" means ____________________________________ and is made of up two Greek words

___________ and ___________

Love of wisdom; Philia and Sophia

Name the four ancient Greek words for love and their English equivalents: _______________/_______________,

_______________/_______________, _______________/_______________, and _______________/_______________

Storge/Affection, Philia/Friendship, Eros/Romance, Agape/Charity

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Static nearness to God is called ________________________________________________, while the progressive

nearness caused by unifying one's will with God's will is called ______________________________________________

Nearness by Likeness and Nearness by Approach

Explain the difference between natural and divine love: ___________________________________________________

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Natural love must be maintained as it will eventually go bad. Divine love is unconditional and selfless.

What is the difference between motivated and unmotivated love?

Motivated is when you perceive someone as lovely and/or beautiful. You love them based on that perception. Unmotivated love is when you love somebody, and because of that, they are revealed to be beautiful.

List four features of storge

Grows over time, conservative, can be jealous, unmotivated.

Describe one way that storge can be corrupted: __________________________________________________________

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Resentment of independence: Once someone you have storge for gets on their own two feet, you cut them off because you miss the old relationship/person.

Why doesn't experience alone lead to wisdom? Give your own examples.

Experiences don't tell you what to learn from the experience. An example would be getting back into a relationship after you found out they cheated on you. Then repeating this cycle because even though you know this person cheats on you, you haven't realized that this isn't good for your sanity.

Characterize need-love, gift-love, and appreciative love.

N-L: A dependent love, such as a child wanting the love of their parent after falling.

G-L: giving the other person things they love just because you love them.

A-L: admiration for the person you love without wanting anything from them.

List 4 features of Philia:

1. Develops over a common interest.

2. Develops quickly.

3. Intentional

4. By itself, not jealous

Describe one way Philia can be corrupted:

Philia is high in appreciative love; you think highly of them and then yourself. You may begin to think that you and that person are better than others. Philia can become prideful.

List 4 features of Eros:

1. Discriminates

2. Fickle

3. Motivated

4. Feels like it happens to you.

Describe one way that Eros can be corrupted:

Eros can lead people to become obsessed with being in love. They essentially chase that idea of love without being in love with the person.

What is the gist of Phaedrus's speech?

"Eros motivates the lover to desire to live well."

What is the gist of Pausanias's speech?

"Love is neither good nor bad itself. It depends being attracted to the right thing."

What is the gist of Aristophanes' speech?

"Eros is the desire for wholeness, for ones missing half."

What is the function of Eros, according to Socrates?

"The job of eros is to turn one's attention away from earthly and up to the divine."

Explain why Aristotle thinks there are three kinds of friendships. Does Aristotle think they are all equal in worth, or does he value some types of friendships more highly than others? Why or why not?

He thinks there are three kinds of friendships because everyone has their own definition of what a friend is. This is why they are categorized: one as pleasure, then utility, and finally virtue/goodness. He only believes in friendship based on virtue and goodness is real. He was a philosopher who believed that the goal in life is to become a good person; a friendship rooted in virtue/goodness is crucial to this journey.

According to Socrates, the participants in the symposium seem to agree on two things. What are they? How does their understanding of eros contrast with the Christian understanding of agape as an unmotivated love?

1. Eros is love of something 2. One loves what one lacks; believes eros leads us to heavenly thought and love for God and beauty and the divine, but contrasts because Christians believe agape is only a one-way street, where God has unconditional love for creation, but creation cannot reciprocate this kind of love to God

List 4 features of Agape

1. Unconditional

2. Selfless

3. Supernatural

4. Primarily God’s Love

Why can’t agape be corrupted?

Natural loves can go bad, become toxic and continue to be considered love. Corrupted agape is not love, it does not exist,

Characterize Gnosticisim

a form of dualism where spirit is light and good and matter is dark and evil. The bad is responsible for creating this earth.

Lust is….

activation of the sex instinct apart from a well governed will

How does St. Augustine argue that sex and the body aren’t themselves bad? Why does Augustine think is problematic about sexuality after the fall? Why?

He explains that God created the body and sex for man to be fruitful. All God creates is good. When Adam and Eve first saw one another, they did not feel shame about their bodies being see from one another. Prior to Adam and Eve taking from the tree, they had full will over how their bodies moved, especially the intimate areas. After they took from the tree, they did not have that free will, and instead, they were now “controlled” by their bodies because they disobeyed God. They felt shame for appearing naked and found ways to cover up. What is problematic about sexuality after the fall is that if you let it control you. Your will must be stronger, you must be married, and only have intercourse to be fruitful, as that’s its main intention. If this original sin had not been committed, one could have full autonomy of themselves and decide when it was time to be fruitful, the same way one can decide to move their head to the left and then to the right.

What are archetypes?

Primordial structural elements of the human psyche which shape thoughts, feeling, and behavior.

Persona is ____________ Shadow is _________

Visible; hidden

Anima is _______________________________________________ Animas is____________________________

the internal feminine by biological male; the internal masculine by biological female

Define “individuation”

The lifelong process of integrating the conscious mind and unconscious mind to work as a dynamic whole.

Characterize “contained” / “container”

The contained is more into the relationship. They are also more psychologically simple so it’s hard to project on them. The container is more psychologically complex, they are prone to be detached from the relationship.

Name the “four” elements of courtly love

1) Aristocratic (kings, queens, any nobility) 2) Ritualistic 3) Secret (no one knows about them besides the lovers) 4) Adulterous

Explain why Denis de Rougemont thinks that passionate love of the kind that Tristan and Islet have is really a rejection of the here and now, therefore the will to death.

• The characters in the story are not in love with one another. Instead they are love with the idea of being in love, that chase, the passion.

• If they truly wanted to be with one another, they could have been. They could both have run off and live a simple life. However thats not what the wanted because that would be stability.

• They are chasing a feeling, an unattainable feeling in life. They only way they can be together is if they both die, at least for that passion to continue, because if they were to get together, it would be mundane and simple.

Name the five love languages

Physical touch, Words of Affirmation, Gift-giving, quality time, acts of service.

What is intimacy?

When 2 people know and value one another for who they really are.

Milton believed that people in his time should loosen up about divorce. What does he suggest as a new legitimate reason to divorce? What do these ideas about divorce indirectly tells us about his conception about marriage?

Milton argues that emotional incompatibility is grounds for divorce. This belief suggests that marriage is about emotional intimacy. Without it, it is not a marriage.