Secondary Reflection on Love and Self
Secondary Reflection on Love and Self Jerone Avel S. Cansino, M.A.Ed Palawan State University- Bataraza Campus jcansinopsu@gmail.com Introduction Love and self were seen as two platonic elements. There are notions that love is the arriving into the mental and emotional state of selflessness. It was said that if you love you forget yourself and you give it to its object (the object of love). In this analysis I bluntly and immediately reject this notion. What I believe about love is summarized into the statements below. (1) Love is not selflessness, in fact it is full of self. (2) Love is self, you cannot love without having the rudimentary concept of self. (3) Love needs to be selfish but it does not end there because it is a continuous process (4) Love has a subject and an object, then the highest manifestation of love is found on objects that are farthest from the subject. The discussion of this analysis would focus on debunking the common assumption that love is not...