Jose D.

Santos III 10/31/2022

AB PHILO - 3 PHILO 19 B

I. Outline of Metaphysics Paper

A.) Title: Love And Being: The Need For Love To Be Analogous And Active

B.) Main Thesis of the Paper

In the discussion and investigation of Norris Clarke on Thomistic Metaphysics of a
self-communicating and self-expressing activity requisite for a Being/being to be possible.
The paper will look generally on love as an umbrella term of the Greek definitions of Agápe
(unconditional love), Éros (passionate and/or erotic love), Philia (friendship), and Storge
(familial love). In this I argue that love exhibits the exact same characteristics of a type of
unity of mental and real being.

C.) Supporting Points

● Love as Self-communicating, self-expressive action is inherent in all instances that it
is present. (Chapter 4, Norris Clarke,Unity as Transcendental Property of Being, pp
60)
● Love like every real being, compared to every other, at once shares the same act of
existence, but is not that being, thus produces love in its various forms..(Chapter 5,
Norris Clarke, Being as One and Many, pp 73)
● Love is a unity of real and mental being for it to be made intelligible. (Chapter 11,
Norris Clarke, Being in Time, pp 162)

D.) Conclusion
Hence, Love presents itself as the synthesis of a real and mental being wherein it acts as a
force that expresses itself but is not bound to one mode of existence but in both real and
mental. Thus in all instances of love, in its basket form, we can determine that love is the
affirmation of the self through the other as made possible by its realness, as its status as a real
being, and its mental state, from which its various forms are given manifestation through the
present paradigm of understanding.