Since antiquity, Love is one of core concerns for philosophers. Thanks to Plato, through his Symposium, this question has acquired its letters of nobility. Love in a general sense, can be defined as an expansion of the heart toward another human being.
General Definitions:
- Latin: amor: love, intense desire
- Philosophy, Psychology: inclination toward one person or even an object considered good
- Love is the Moral opposite tendency to selfishness
Specific definitions:
- Plato: “Any general aspiration towards the good things and to happiness, that’s the Love”
- Tolstoy: “Love has always based on the renunciation of individual property”
- Descartes: “Love is a passion that can arise in us without in any way we could see if the object that causes it is good or bad “
- Spinoza: “Love is nothing but a joy accompanied by an external cause”
- Schopenhauer: “Love is a trap for men to perpetuate the species”
