Love is probably the most important things to humans apart from what we need to survive and for safety. In this video, I explore the possibility that love requires suffering, and then I relate this idea to the Problem of Evil.
NOTES
- Types of love
- Self-interested loves (Aristotle)
- 1. Friendship of Utility
- 2. Friendship of Pleasure
- 3. Friendship of Virtue
- True love (Aquinas)
- Desire for the good of the beloved
- Self-interested loves (Aristotle)
- Love defense
- 1. True love requires serving the beloved
- 2. Serving presupposes a lack of some good needed
- 3. The lack of a needed good is an evil
- 4. So, true love requires evil exist
- 5. True love is a great good
- 6. So, possibly God allows evil for the sake of true love
- I think this argument could be improved by changing (1) to say that true love is greatly benefited by serving the beloved. This would change (4) to say that true love is greatly benefited by the existence of evil. The overall point wouldn’t change because God would still be allowing evil for the sake of true love.
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