erotic love

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Noun1.erotic love - a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love"
sexual love, love
concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire, eros - a desire for sexual intimacy
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Kierkegaard redefines the biblical aspects of spiritual love in relation to erotic love and friendship.
SELF-IDENTITY THROUGH THE PRISM OF OTHER IN MEROLD WESTPHAL'S EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
It will give a historical and philosophical account of the nature of erotic love and then apply this account to the question of homosexuality and homoerotic desire.
A Catholic Perspective on Homoerotic Desire
As if that's not enough, along the way he also discusses the structure of values, emotions, sentiments, erotic love, and romantic relationships, making advances in each of these areas.
Jason Stotts's Eros and Ethos: A New Theory of Sexual Ethics
The film, 'Cupid', will revolve around the god of desire, affection, erotic love and attraction.
Justin Beiber to lend voice to 'Cupid' - God of Love
Drayton's Idea reimagines the laws of love as a murder trial with the Lady and Cupid representing the law of erotic love. Sokolov finds similar legal proceedings in John Lydgate's Complaynte of a Louers Lyfe, where the dead Lover testifies against his own murder.
Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare
All this stands in contrast to romantic and erotic love, and Blatterer devotes a chapter to drawing a contrast between the different "institutional trajectories" of friendship and romantic love.
Blatterer, Harry. Everyday Friendships: Intimacy as Freedom in a Complex World
Thus, erotic love, for Levinas, is necessary for the ethical relationship.
Ethics of sensibility in Tom Wolfe's Back to Blood
Emilia's song and Pampinea's hymn to erotic love bookend Day Two, according to Francesco Ciabattoni.
Dino S. Cervigni (ed.), Annali d'Italianistica, vol. 31, Boccaccio's Decameron: Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages
"Under the tyranny of erotic love," Socrates explains, the tyrant "has permanently become while awake what he used to become occasionally while asleep."
How do Plato's tyrannical man and Donald Trump compare?
The last two chapters provide a commentary on the development of erotic love in the films of Hitchcock, Lang, Luis Bunuel, Truffant, Sternberg, Rohmer, Sofia Coppola and many others.
Reidar Due, Love in Motion: Erotic Relationships in Film
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