RE: Can God love?
June 22, 2018 at 7:44 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2018 at 7:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 22, 2018 at 7:13 pm)emjay Wrote: But since I don't see it like that... ie as erotic only... and neither do you apparently... but instead (now... following my 'gross misunderstanding') see it as strictly about egocentric, but not 'othercentric', value-seeking of any kind (which still may be wrong... but that's where I'm up to with my understanding)... it means than in order to have a fruitful discussion with him I need to either reformulate my questions in his usage of the terms, or reformulate them without use of the terms at all... or at least not with the contentious eros, since the only alternative is us talking past each other using different definitions. In other words that's probably the end of the discussion for now... just need to keep on reading."Otherseeking" would be storge. It gets lost as people focus on the other three. Natural affection and empathy. The exclusive otherseeking value.
It;s a pretty simple breakdown (particularly for all the ink spilt on account of it).
Eros-Love
Philia-Friendship
Storge-Empathy
Agape-Benevolence
The question for drich would be - Is god benevolent? Magic hateball says no, lol.
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