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Philosophical concept

Love

Love is an attachment that seeks another’s good; its forms range from desire and friendship to charity.

Works
294
Passages
28,124
Thinkers
47
Traditions
16

Understand uses of the concept

Love is an attachment that seeks another’s good; its forms range from desire and friendship to charity.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 28,124 passages across 294 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: amour, aimer, love, charity, caritas, diligere

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  9. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  15. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  16. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  17. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  18. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  19. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  23. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  24. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  25. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  26. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  27. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  28. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  29. On FriendshipCicero · 30 passages
  30. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages