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Did Ancient Greeks believed that only God can give Agape Love, the unconditional love for ev...

God does not love the sinner because he is a sinner, nor does he love the righteous because he is righteous. … Again the same love appears, here Israel's response to Yahweh's cove- nant love. In the same chapter Yahweh's love for sinful Israel is affirmed: "Is Israel my dear son? …
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Is the way we love deterministric?

But I assume you have in mind romantic love or the love we find in friendship - not for instance the love of our country (1914 and all that) or lustful obsession. … He had never known a deep love for a woman but then Joy Davidman came into his life, a divorcee with children, and he came to love both a woman and her children, novel elements in his experience. …
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How can a person truly love another if hard determinism is true?

Hard determinism does not entail that your love is a chemical reaction in your brain. … Hard determinism could be true without your love being identical with a chemical reaction. …
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Is loving someone essentially selfish?

If I love X and, because X is ill I nurse and tend X, just because X is my friend, then this is an act of love. … Richard Henson, 'Butler on Selfishness and Self-Love', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 49, No. 1 (September 1988). …
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Does anyone say that dying for a cause is always irrational?

Dying for a reason - suicide I am inclined to say that rational action just is action done for a reason or (I'll concede at a stretch) for an 'all things considered' reason or set of reasons. Not in …
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Marsilio Ficino' commentary on the Symposium on Love guidance

Platonism and Christianity, seen as love, are one; and the term "Platonic love," which Ficino invented, embraces love in its widest sense. … All the known love traditions are fused to show how love between individual persons derives from the love between the individual and God. …
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What philosophers believed marriage is man's ultimate perfection?

I confine my remarks to Plato, who dominates your question Plato, Aristophanes & the Symposium Plato does not identify himself or the Platonic Socrates with Aristophanes' view. Aristophanes was a come …
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