HUMAN PERSON

AS A LOVER
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
True love desires the
other’s good.
-Teilhard De Chardin
Statements on the
CONCEPT OF LOVE
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
The psychology of sexual love
reestablishes unity between spiritual
and carnal love.
Purely carnal love denatures man;
permanent monogamous marriage,
based on love, is the only natural carnal
union for the human species.
ERICH FROMM
Love is an art.
Love is an active power in man
and it is characterized by giving,
“the highest expression of my
potency (power or strength)”.
 1. Care
Basic
2. Responsibility
Elements
in Love 3. Respect
4. Knowledge
 1. Discipline
Essentials 2. Concentration
in the 3. Patience
Practice
4. Supreme concern
of Love
with mastery of the
art of love
VITALIANO R. GOROSPE, S.G.
Dimensions of Love
1. Love of desire/self (eros)
2. Love of friendship (agape)
Bases of Love
1. Similitude (likeness)
2. Participation
 1. Love is mutual or
reciprocal.
2. Love must be
Qualities expressed.
of Love 3. Love is creative.
4. The paradox of love:
“It is better to give than
to receive.”
 1. Fidelity (faithfulness)
2. Service (paglilingkod)
Filipino 3. Respect (paggalang)
Concept 4. Gratitude (utang na
of Love loob)
5. Mutual Sharing (paki-
kisama )
Philosophers’ Concepts on
HUMAN LOVE
 One word
frees us of all the
SOCRATES weight and pain
Greek Philosopher
in life, that word
is love.
 Love is simply the
name for the desire
and pursuit of the
PLATO whole.
Greek Philosopher The madness of
love is the greatest
of heaven’s
blessings.
 Love is composed
of a single soul
inhabiting two
ARISTOTLE bodies.
Greek Philosopher Selfishness doesn’t
consist in a love to
yourself, but in a big
degree of such love.
 Wherever you
CONFUCIUS go, go with all
Chinese Philosopher
your heart.
 Being deeply loved
by someone gives
LAO-TZU you strength, while
Chinese Philosopher loving someone
deeply gives you
courage.
 Love is the beauty
of the soul.
ST. AUGUSTINE Better to have
Medieval Philosopher loved and lost,
than to have
never loved at all.
 There is always
some madness in
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE love, but there is
German Philosopher
also always some
reason in
madness.
 To fear love is to fear
life, and those who
fear life are already
three parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Of all forms of
British Philosopher
caution, caution in
love is perhaps the
most fatal to true
happiness.
 There is no remedy
for love but to love
more.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
American Philosopher There is only one
path to heaven.
On earth, we call
it love.
 Immature love
says: ‘I love you
because I need
ERICH FROMM you.’ Mature love
German Philosopher
says: I need you
because I love
you.’
 The hunger for love is
much more difficult
to remove than the
MOTHER TERESA hunger for bread.
Macedonian Missionary There are no great
things, only small
things with great
love.
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