The evolution of human love

Of copulation in spiritual love

From Eros to Abbé Pierre

Returning now to our theory, in other words " the progressive evolution of humanity towards perfection."

There is a big difference between primary love ( erotic or clan ) and universal love.
Between "love" moved by the simple sexual desire, motivated by love and brotherhood. The brotherhood of Abbe Pierre, a Martin Luther King or Mother Teresa, for example.

An abyss separates the "love " of " Aphrodite vulgar" and love by Diotima. Immensity between eros Phaedra and divine love of the last intervention of the banquet of Plato.

The rise of love in the banquet symbolize perfectly the rest of the story of love in the living. A story from the reproductive function, to its apogee ( the wise, the holy, awake). In this summit, then it reaches the absolute and undifferentiated love spoken of Buddha.

The great destiny of humanity

For several centuries now, qualitatively speaking, man has reached the ultimate level of love. He knows nirvana, bliss.

But our species has not finished with his spiritual evolution. By developing a general sensitivity, it makes humanity more apt to ecstasy.

This is basically our philosophy.

Gradually, the human brain softens. It moderates becomes more sensitive and tender *.

* Through education, culture, travel, media, etc..

He loses his egocentrism, narcissism and its rigidity.
These two mechanisms make our mind more and more able to love others. A love of absolute (and not so clannish, parochial or partisan ). That is to love the quality of bliss and ecstasy.

The mécaniqueuniverselle even claims (not without provocation ) as a species of whales, has already reached the ecstatic state *.

* A state of love which any aggression is abolished.

To the absolute love

The ability to express his love

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At birth, we all have the same ability to love. We are stuffed like a tomato.

The atmosphere of family, social and educational environment, or awaken then wither, the original capacity. When " dry " to emotional place, several factors are responsible.

The values of society, abuse or emotional neglect, make party.

This provision is also proportional to the ability to control his instincts and tendencies. More species control his impulses, the more it is able to express his affection.

The domestic dog, after thousands of years of socialization is capable of spontaneous affection for the man. This is not the case of the wolf or the dingo *.

* The dingo is a domestic dog returned to the wild life and réhabitué to alert and to predation.

The values ​of society

Today, impulse control, essentially depends on the values of society and the education system.

The example of the return to the wild dog, should also give us pause.

When a global system, demolished the social and legal protections *, it reinstalls the ferocity of nature.

* Supposedly to stimulate the creativity of humanity

When employers' push for the restoration of insecurity, they simply exhume the primitive laws.

* And all their consequences, aggression, brutality, fear, alert, unsocial, excessive competition,

Social, education, support, human morality and culture are valuable to protect ideas. Keep alive their evolution is a necessity to avoid any return to the wild nature.

Overall, despite some occasional setbacks, the shape of our evolution in this direction. She constantly reduces the influence of instincts in favor of the expression of love.

Civilization and Culture, explained Thomas Mann, are opposites. They are one of the various manifestations of the eternal cosmic annoyance and play opposite of Spirit and Nature. No one will argue that Mexico at the time of its discovery, had a culture, but no one would claim that it was so civilized.

Culture is certainly not the opposite of barbarism. often, it is rather a savagery of a great style - and among the peoples of antiquity, the only, perhaps, who were Chinese were civilized. Culture is closing, style, shape, attitude, taste, it is a certain organization in the world, and no matter that this can be adventurous, buffoon, wild, bloody and terrifying.

Culture can include oracles, magic, homosexuality, human sacrifices and orgiastic cults, the Inquisition burnings, ritual dances, witchcraft, and all kinds of cruelty.

Civilization, for its part, is because light sweetness, Decency, skepticism, relaxation, Spirit ( Geist ). Yes, the Spirit is civil, bourgeois : it is the sworn enemy of impulses, passions, it is antidémoniaque, anti-heroic - and it is only a semblance of paradox that it is also antigénial.

Love through the ages

To the best possible expression

The rise of love

Religion : linking man to God.

Overall, the different forms of expression of love between individuals, have constantly evolved over the ages.

The love between man and woman, the love of self (excluding narcissism ) love of others, the maternal and paternal love, inter- community love, respect for others, friendship, affection, altruism, compassion... have developed in depth and sensitivity.

Love humans, follows less the impulses, and more to consciousness. Proportion to population growth, regresses violence and the expression of love is getting stronger. In the West, for example, the criminal penalty is increased from the systematic torture, extenuating circumstances.
The death penalty previously imposed for trivialities * has evolved in custodial sanctions.

* Crow a silver plate for example by means age

The legal slavery until the French Revolution, is now banned in most countries.

In conclusion

If the bacteria in the sponge, fish, the reptile to mammal to man, there is gradual evolution expressions of love... if the highest expression of love is ecstasy, nirvana, bliss... and if ecstasy is useless other than itself... then, through the evolution of love, living a purpose. His ambition is to gradually take this expression to its perfection. That is at the door of ecstasy. If his love come in form of ecstasy, no use other than * this emanation, the fundamental value of the "evolution of the mind " is necessarily " love."

* We do not practice bliss for money, honor, fame etc.., Opposite the intelligence example

Therefore, the gradual rise of the spirit of life to a superior mind is actually: The gradual increase of the mind to its purest expression of love.

Love as supreme value

Therefore love is the fundamental value of life. And the ability to express it, is the only true scale to measure progress. All other faculties ( beauty, intelligence, strength, eloquence, technique, awareness, knowledge, art, philosophy ) are subordinate.

Religion as a mere instrument

This is also the case for the value : religion. For all major spiritualities, the " creative principle " is absolute love. And it is this love that they worship. Religions are not to worship the supreme value. They just left the vehicles that we bring to the feet of the sovereign value. In other words, at the foot of " unconditional love." And here we come to the end of the page.

phew...

In any case, thank you for your reading. Given the length of the article and its boring qualities, you 've earned two small " quick counter " Love and Hate is the two extremes.. everyone is in the middle.

If we make the philosophy of counter is that this deck is too expensive!

2001


Psychology