From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Thu Jul 19 19:29:33 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 20 Jul 2001 02:29:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 68622 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2001 02:28:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 20 Jul 2001 02:28:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay3-gui.server.ntli.net) (194.168.4.200) by mta1 with SMTP; 20 Jul 2001 02:28:45 -0000 Received: from m83-mp1-cvx1b.bir.ntl.com ([62.255.40.83] helo=andrew) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with smtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15NPmx-0007hM-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:13:12 +0100 To: Subject: RE: greeks and love (was RE: [lojban] registry of experimental cmavo - new proposals featuring XOhA an...) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:27:55 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" This is off topic, but I'm hoping to get an answer to something I've long been wondering: Craig: > The greeks had three different roots which meant love. [...] > The greek stems varied in > meaning, admittedly, but not as widely as the English word does. Eros was > ALWAYS the sexual kind, for example, while philo was ALWAYS a more 'how you > feel' kind. how you felt varied with philo; in plato and aristotle it was > more like friendship than love. There is actually significance to the fact > that plato was a philosopher and not an erosopher - he enjoyed knowledge, > but he wasn't getting in bed with it and having passionate intercourse. [erotosopher, that should be. (& is, I dream, my calling in life...)] I presume the third word is agape (besides philo & eros). But what, then, is storge? --And. ps. I shall be away from the net for a few days shortly. Please don't everybody post too many messages, or I'll never catch up on my return. Or post messages in Lojban, which I can happily (or at least nonunhappily) then delete unread....