Tapsearch Com EditorLove and Hate distinctions (LINK)
June 30th 2008 18:11
We continue our exploration into personality and character related to self improvment. We do this in an environment of the unnetted in the global economic arena with workers evidently having very little voice in their destinies. We hope our efforts provide a better platform for the unnetted to speak out. One of the greatest men I ever met was a shop foreman in the factory where I worked while going to college full time. I met many others on the way including some of the best Jesuit educators, a General in the Army, top political leaders and presidents of large corporations. The shop foreman influenced me the most. His caring nature in a pressure production environment was unique. He took care of those under his charge and taught me several manual skills never knowing he was teaching me much more. It came down to love. It was a love full of distinctions and this is what we will try to explore now.
We base much of our study on our notes from Father McQuade whose course I took in college and which remained with me my entire life. Father McQuade also had a local TV broadcast in Cleveland Ohio for some time.
The dictionary has many definitions for the word love. It seems there should be more different words to describe all the loves there are. Perhaps this is why we get confused at times about what it is all about. First of all there is the Perfect Love of God. Most spirituality is based on pursuing this perfection that is absent from our own human nature. This Perfect Love is also a logical explanation of supernatural Love outside of ourselves confined to human nature.
Here are some definitions from the dictionary. My shop foreman posess most of these variations based on brotherly love.
Love is an affection based on admiration and benevolence.
Love is a warm attachment, enthusiasm or devotion.
Love is an object of such attachment or devotion.
Love is an unselfish concern that freely accepts another in loyalty.
Love is the fatherly concern of God for man.
Love is the brotherly concern for others.
Love is man's adoration of God.
Love is an attraction based on attraction of sex.
Love is the affection and tenderness felt by lovers.
Love is the cherishing who are the objects of our love.
Love is amorous episode. ( however in our modern times, the quality of love breaks down with the term - "making love". - as in the song title " What does love have to do with it."
In all love implies intense fondness or deep devotion. Love of self also has many new meanings in our times.
There are more distinction to be made about both love and hate. Ususally this distinction is recognized in ordinary diction by the way people use "like" and "love" , "dislike" and "hatred". It is common to hear someone say " I like so and so, but I do not love him" , or " I dislike so and so , but I do not hate him". Evidently, liking a person means we are loving them on the sense level, just as "disliking" means hatred on the sense level. The common usuage of words, then, shows there is an affectve complacency and an affective repugnance that involve the higher facculties of man, and one that does not. Love in this higher sense level implies not only a natural attraction towards an object but also good will. Hatred implies not only a natural adversion, but also ill-will. Obviously, our love is predominately for persons and our hatred, would be irrational to have ill-will toward anything less.
Failure to make this distinction would be a serious obstacle to the work of making love the dominant place in our lives. One who fails to see that he has little or no direct control over his sense loves and sense hatreds will be constantly discouraged at the lack fo success where succes cannot be expected. He will be constantly blaming himself for not loving what is good and experiencing a sense love for what he knows is evil. It must be the object of all training in personality and character to make love the dominant note of life, and a love for the real good, a rational love, which is quite independent of the sense of love of the lower level. Love does not include the possibility of the " devil made me do it ".
Through love we can bury these natural aversions in the benevolence which may characterize our attitude adn that, after all that is true love.
One who hates strongly is likely to be mean, bitter, sour in life, and pessimistic in philosophy and their interpretation of God. Stong emotions overflow into all parts of our lives.
Based on our perception from the notes of Father McQuade - we will continue with our exploration of love and hate bringing in joy and grief in our next post.
We base much of our study on our notes from Father McQuade whose course I took in college and which remained with me my entire life. Father McQuade also had a local TV broadcast in Cleveland Ohio for some time.
The dictionary has many definitions for the word love. It seems there should be more different words to describe all the loves there are. Perhaps this is why we get confused at times about what it is all about. First of all there is the Perfect Love of God. Most spirituality is based on pursuing this perfection that is absent from our own human nature. This Perfect Love is also a logical explanation of supernatural Love outside of ourselves confined to human nature.
Here are some definitions from the dictionary. My shop foreman posess most of these variations based on brotherly love.
Love is an affection based on admiration and benevolence.
Love is an object of such attachment or devotion.
Love is an unselfish concern that freely accepts another in loyalty.
Love is the fatherly concern of God for man.
Love is the brotherly concern for others.
Love is man's adoration of God.
Love is an attraction based on attraction of sex.
Love is the affection and tenderness felt by lovers.
Love is the cherishing who are the objects of our love.
Love is amorous episode. ( however in our modern times, the quality of love breaks down with the term - "making love". - as in the song title " What does love have to do with it."
In all love implies intense fondness or deep devotion. Love of self also has many new meanings in our times.
There are more distinction to be made about both love and hate. Ususally this distinction is recognized in ordinary diction by the way people use "like" and "love" , "dislike" and "hatred". It is common to hear someone say " I like so and so, but I do not love him" , or " I dislike so and so , but I do not hate him". Evidently, liking a person means we are loving them on the sense level, just as "disliking" means hatred on the sense level. The common usuage of words, then, shows there is an affectve complacency and an affective repugnance that involve the higher facculties of man, and one that does not. Love in this higher sense level implies not only a natural attraction towards an object but also good will. Hatred implies not only a natural adversion, but also ill-will. Obviously, our love is predominately for persons and our hatred, would be irrational to have ill-will toward anything less.
Failure to make this distinction would be a serious obstacle to the work of making love the dominant place in our lives. One who fails to see that he has little or no direct control over his sense loves and sense hatreds will be constantly discouraged at the lack fo success where succes cannot be expected. He will be constantly blaming himself for not loving what is good and experiencing a sense love for what he knows is evil. It must be the object of all training in personality and character to make love the dominant note of life, and a love for the real good, a rational love, which is quite independent of the sense of love of the lower level. Love does not include the possibility of the " devil made me do it ".
Through love we can bury these natural aversions in the benevolence which may characterize our attitude adn that, after all that is true love.
One who hates strongly is likely to be mean, bitter, sour in life, and pessimistic in philosophy and their interpretation of God. Stong emotions overflow into all parts of our lives.
Based on our perception from the notes of Father McQuade - we will continue with our exploration of love and hate bringing in joy and grief in our next post.
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