Theory Of Love Research Paper

This paper will prove that love is continually sought among humans. Love, a term lightly used in the common world today is not simply a descriptive word to use for something we like. There is a deeper meaning and a more direct use of the word, and the idea. Nothing is more important than love, and no subject than it is so often misused. In its deeper sense love is often looked upon as a Christian or moral viewpoint and not something that can or should be applied outside of that to the common world. In this paper I will prove that to be wrong. Undeniably, love is not as simple as it may seem. In today’s culture all people want something that will make their life better. A human want however is not simply just the desire for a tangible good, …show more content…
Using the theory explained above we are able to come to a conclusion about love. Love is something that we want to make our lives better, and we are unable to fully understand it. Being that we do not fully understand love and only have a finite view upon it, we always seek more. If we did fully understand love and have an infinite knowledge about it we would not need to love or be loved. There are no humans on earth that lack the ability to love or be loved; therefore, love is not fully understood by any human, so love is sought by …show more content…
I can tell you one thing for sure, it is not the feeling we have for flappy birds. C.S. Lewis describes the different meanings of love very well in one of his books, The Four Loves. The first love Lewis describes is supernatural love, or agape. This love is described as infinite love. For example Christ lived in this infinite love when he walked upon this earth. Agape is the form of love that we always strive towards, but being as it is infinite we are never able to fully understand it. The second form of love Lewis describes is storge. Storge is a human’s natural affection for something, or his pronounced way of liking something. This is the form, of the word love, that many use today. For example one might say, “I love my car,” or “I love the sunrise in the morning.” This is a loose use of the word love, and is wrongly used especially in English. Moving on, third, Lewis describes love as eros. Eros is a natural sexual desire, and is the form of love many times had between a husband and a wife. Similar to eros in a sense is philia. Like eros, philia is a form of love humans have for one another, but is limited to friendship. Storge, eros, and philia, the three natural loves, are all great and filled with meaning, but they do not compare to the power of agape love. Being finite loves, these natural loves all have limitations, but they all point toward agape, and often are capable of opening the door of desire for unconditional love. In English of