ELI EXPLAINS THE CHALLENGE IN DESCRIBING LOVE (worth repeating) —“Love (noun)

ELI EXPLAINS THE CHALLENGE IN DESCRIBING LOVE

(worth repeating)

—“Love (noun) refers to the condition in which one’s happiness depends on another’s. And therefore to love (verb) must mean to act in a manner consistent with this condition prevailing. If we adopt these as our definitions, then it becomes obvious, upon cursory examination, that we can never accurately describe actual “love” (either the noun or the verb) as either universal or unconditional for long.”— Eli Harman