Money vs real love

Moodrets
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:27:02 +0000

The latter, of course (from title). I have enough money at present, and don’t have any great want (much less need!) for more, and also I don’t care much for the type of power you are undoubtedly referring to.

It is important to clarify what people here mean by love (much less real love. As opposed to what? False love?). I tend to define love as positive sympathy which becomes, in essence, an alignment of will – when by the very virtue of your partner’s happiness (defined here as a “fulfillment of desire”) you too grow happy, independent of any tangible benefit that you might reap. Love becomes, then, a synchronicity of desire between a pair, whereby one will want and actively strive to fulfill the wants of the other (a pair only because peoples’ desires oftentimes conflict, so one cannot fully love two with the same breath, and must instead compromise between them).

The greeks where also interested in better defining love – from them we have agape, thelema, philia, storge, and eros. Which one, if any, is being referred to here?