Based on her examination of extremely aggressive fantasies of hate, envy, and greed in very young and very ill children, Klein put forth the interpretation that the human psyche constantly oscillates between positions in
which Eros or Thanatos is in the fore.
Combine this with a stay at equally amorous sister property Grace Mykonos and you have a Greek getaway of
which Eros would approve.
I have already mentioned the proposal of the Freudian, Herbert Marcuse, for a panerotic philosophy of life in
which eros, agape, and thanatos (death) will all be integrated in the one self - expression of the human spirit.
Not exact matches
InfraDigital Technologies Pvt. Ltd,
which operates online doctor consultation platform AlternaCare, has raised $ 500,000 (Rs 3.35 crore) in seed investment from
Eros Labs.
Recently
Eros media international has been in news although not for good reasons:)
Eros which is also listed in NYSE was downgraded by Wells Fargo, a leading banking and financial services company.
It has been consummated in the service of a cause
which transcends but does not negate personal
eros.
In the composition of his final draft, they were summarized in the chapter «Christ and
Eros» (chapter 11),
which he regarded as the book's pivotal section.
Whitehead believes that Plato discovered those general ideas
which are relevant to everything that happens: The Ideas, the Physical Elements, The Psyche, The
Eros, The Harmony, The Mathematical Relations, The Receptacle.30 In adapting Plato's seven basic notions Whitehead takes «the notion of actuality as in its essence process «31 as his starting point.
There is no rejection of desire or passion or sexuality or the
eros of the beautiful in the New Testament, though there are expressions and tendencies
which could be used to support ascetic tendencies in later religious practice.
Though frequently equated,
eros is very different from lust,
which can best be described as the desire to sexually possess or dominate another person.
The entire passage reads, «In spite of the many kinds of love,
which in Greek are designated as philia (friendship),
eros (aspiration toward value), and epithymia (desire), in addition to agape,
which is the creation of the Spirit, there is one point of identity in all these qualities of love,
which justifies the translation of them all by «love»; and that identity is the «urge toward the reunion of the separated,»
which is the inner dynamics of life.
Or as Tillich has it, «The appetitus of every being to fulfil itself through union with other beings is universal...» (32) Agape, the love that gives with no thought of return;
eros, the love that finds the beloved valuable, and philia, the love that shares and works for the vision of the good - none of these can be reduced to sexual desire, but all of them in different ways attest to the oneness of love, so evident in sexual union, as «that
which drives everything that is towards everything else that is.»
Agape is charity in the purest sense, without superiority or condescension, while
eros is sensual love, in
which desire and jealousy are possible.
Traditionally, that is the only basis on
which we are received into the community of the redeemed where we are sustained in the lifelong struggle against our devils, of
which unruly
Eros is by no means the most fearsome.
Indeed, the words with
which Dinah accepts Adam's proposal explicitly join
eros and agape: «My soul is so knit with yours that it is but a divided life I live without you.
He provides abundant examples of such
eros, some of
which are startlingly close to soft porn («a swift shot from his spear of love,» «strong thrusts came against me»).
Although the movement
eros introduces depends upon the power of the end
which lures it,
eros must be an integral component of the source of the process.
The political objectives of the student revolutionaries of 1968, whether in Paris or Chicago, came to nothing, but there did take place a radical change in the sexual mores of the Western world, and the novels
which followed The Professor's Daughter depict
eros as Satan's weapon of choice.
It is important to emphasize that the creative love
which Peirce identifies is different from
eros.
As already suggested,
eros requires a dynamic thrust from incompleteness toward completeness, and the basis of this thrust is the end or attraction of the perfection
which is desired and sought after.
In his analysis, he found in Whitehead a concept of divine love
which lies in contrast to New Testament agape and medieval amicitia and
which identifies with Platonic
eros.
There is another, more immediately applicable way in
which the notion of agape introduced here is preferable to the use of the notion of
eros in accounting for creativity.
Man has no worth
which gives him a claim upon the love of God, either before it is given or afterward.8 Man is brought into fellowship with God, but this is not the fellowship as in the
eros way of holy men with a God to whom their holiness makes them acceptable, but it is fellowship of a forgiving God with forgiven sinners.
It is a state of peace
which flows naturally from the life of self - discipline and communion with the source of infinite
Eros.
Thus in Adventures of Ideas he contrasts the divine «
Eros» with «the Adventure in the Universe as One» (pp. 380 - 81),
which in Modes of Thought (New York: Macmillan, 1938) he refers to as «the reservoir of potentiality and the coordination of achievement» (p. 128).
Farley distinguishes «the power of love expressed in creation (
eros)» and the power present «in providence (tragic love),»
which are complimented by «the power of redemption.
Bloom in THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND describes sophisticated American students as being unmoved by love and death, moved only by music that imitates the mechanical rutting of animals, and having souls
which are flat or unanimated by distinctively human
eros.
In two recent works, The Uncertain Phoenix and
Eros and Irony, David L. Hall presents a systematic and radical critique of the Western cultural and philosophical tradition, and (in The Uncertain Phoenix) a provocative vision of a future
which might result front a movement away from certain aspects of that tradition.
The same notion of divine perfection as excluding all change is functioning in the famous passage in the Symposium in
which Socrates, taught by the wise woman of Mantineia, denies the divinity of
Eros.
When we speak of loving those who oppose us we refer to neither
eros nor philia; we speak of a love
which is expressed in the Greek word agape.
Nygren thus uses his doctrine of the contrasting motifs of
eros and agape to point to what is distinctive in the Reformation conception of love, but he treats this as the only interpretation of love
which really expresses the New Testament conception.
The life force,
which is the divine
Eros, is calling humanity to a new organization of human societies.
As you will recall, Nygren insists that in God there is no
eros (the Greek word, by the way, for what I have been calling «desire»,
which significantly also in Greek means «love»); in God there is only agape,
which Nygren interprets to mean the love
which gives without regard either to the value of the recipient or the urgency on the part of the giver to receive a returning love.
McFague goes further with her images and speaks of God as mother, lover and friend, each of
which includes divine
Eros and divine Passion.
The author therefore describes all four different types, from
eros, or sexual and physical love, to agape, or the love
which involves complete self - giving.
But to the extent possible he wanted to sharpen the contrast and to theologically overcome the Roman Catholic tradition
which had, from Augustine until Martin Luther, mixed agape and
eros under the motif of charity.
Lovo no
ero is expressed as the second of the trinity
which seeks union with humanity in God's body of the universe.
The toil of
Eros is essential to congregational story because, as Niebuhr perceived,
Eros signifies far more than the contradiction of agape love:
Eros is an image of culture itself, the expressive stuff without
which the proclamation or incarnation of the Christian story is inconceivable.
For Nygren the agape of the Gospel is the spontaneous unmotivated grace of God and it is contrasted with all
eros love,
which seeks its own fulfilment in goodness, truth, and beauty.
We shall try to discover the point at
which agape becomes the one viable answer to the blocking of the human
eros.
He shows clearly how the motif of an
eros love
which seeks its own fulfilment enters into Augustine's description of the pilgrimage of the soul toward God.
Plotinus spoke of God as Love, but he used the Greek word
eros in contrast to agape,
which was another Greek word for love used by Christians.
In fact, there may be such a word: C.S. Lewis in The Four Loves argues that on a level below genuine friendship — philia,
which in Greek tradition is truly a form of love, just as much as
eros (sexual love) or storge (familial affection)-- lies companionship.
NEAR (
which stands for Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) sent back 160,000 images of
Eros's crater - pocked surface, showing us huge boulders as high as 16 - story buildings that dot the asteroid's surface.
The protein,
which the researchers have dubbed
EroS, is an enzyme that cuts sugar groups off protein molecules on the surface of the choanoflagellates.
Dr. Chapman was also a member of the MSI / NIS (imaging / spectrometer) Team of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR Shoemaker) mission to
Eros,
which was launched in February 1996, went into orbit around
Eros on Valentine's Day, 2000, and successfully landed on the surface of
Eros on Feb. 12, 2001.
And a special close - but - no - cigar award goes to the NEAR Shoemaker probe,
which snapped this photo from about 400 feet above the surface of the near - Earth asteroid
Eros:
The probe landed on the surface of
Eros in February 2001 and transmitted usable data for about two weeks afterwards, none of
which was photographic in nature.
Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) President, Michael Malin, was a member of NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission
which explored the asteroid, 433
Eros, in detail in 2000 and early 2001.
Eros is an ortholog of the plant protein Ycf4,
which is necessary for expression of proteins of the photosynthetic photosystem 1 complex, itself also an NADPH oxio - reductase.