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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

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Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

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Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

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Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

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I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

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Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

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The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

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An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 28th, 1902

Died: June 28th, 2001

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