Love expresses itself in various ways; however these ways do not conflict with each other...there are simply different forms.
Libido, or the desire for union physically, is sexual union.
Eros is the desire for union with the world, culture and knowledge.
Philia strives for union between people.
Agape is the greatest because it is not self-centered. It accepts, does not exclude, and fails to make preference. Only through agape are the other forms of love seen without evil desires.
Love transcends "the alternative between legal absolutism and ethical relativism." Only love is sensitive to each of them individually. Love is based on unchanging eternal principle, concern for another.
There is no true definition for love because "there is no higher principle by which it could be defined." "It is life in its actual unity."
"This is the meaning of ethics: to express the ways in which loe embodies itself and life is maintained and saved."
Ethics in the Thought os Paul Tillich by Elliot Shaw
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