zachariah wrote:That is what I mean. Agape includes all of the shades of non-eros meanings. What you stated is unconditional love for your Bro. You don't have to love them enough to take a bullet for them. But you will for those you do love enough.
Well... I'd sorta call that conditional!
(Hums a few bars of "I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in.")
We could right a book, 1,000,000 shakes of Agape and still not cover everything. Eros has about as many, if not more, shades as well. Then both of these words are but subsets of the general word love. I think that is the point about english. THe meaning of love is always affected by context and personal knowledge about the person using it.
By some of the classic accounts (e.g. the
definitions given by C.S. Lewis) , there are actually four categories: agape (unconditional love), eros (romantic and/or sexual love), philia (the love between friends), and
storge (affection or familial love).
Lewis seems to have been big on storge, writing that it was responsible for about 90% of all solid, long-lasting human happiness.
By Lewis's definitions, it seems to me that "brotherly" or "sisterly" love, as they are usually defined, might involve philia, storge, or both. Might start out as storge (mostly the affection of familiarity) and then come to include philia as a deeper friendship develops over time.
chicgeek wrote:School Counselor #1: "Finally got the new girl's schedule worked out! Math, english, gym, history, chemistry, and choir."
School Counselor #2: "CHOIR? ARE YOU INSANE?!"
School Counselor #1: "What? She needs an elective and I can't just dump her in band. How about theater? That could be fun for her. They're working on a musical this year!"
School Counselor #2: *repeatedly headdesks*
//chortle//
I think you just defined a fifth category: "love" as in "I really love my job as a school counselor". I suppose there's probably a Greek term which would mean "sardonic love"?
As far as an elective... would the school give her credit for working on the stage crew? Assuming that she can get her balance back well enough to fly, she'd be a natural for working on the Leko lights, putting up decorations, and so forth.