There's eros, agape, and philia. Eros is yearning-for-the-beautiful. Agape is selfless love. Philia is friendship.
--- On Mon, 3/23/09, 123hop at comcast.net <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> From: 123hop at comcast.net <123hop at comcast.net>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] All the kinds of love
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 6:57 PM
> I have a dim memory of the greek
> concept of eros embracing many diff kinds of love:
>
> -- filial
> -- sexual
> -- brotherly
> -- friendship
> -- universal
> -- religious
>
> etc.
>
> I've tried Googling to find some source to go over all the
> kinds with no luck.
>
> Also, I would like some source for the Christian's sense of
> "passio" as a
> working-through (love).
>
> Thank you much,
>
> Joanna
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