Love doesn’t depend on our will. We don’t love on command. That’s what we often say, and it is true at first sight. But there is another viewpoint: a view where our love is commanded, where love depends on our reason, for our own good and for the sake of itself.
Think, for instance, in the hate present in so many street manifestations and in the stones and threats escaping from infuriated mouths – legitimately or no, it doesn’t matter, in this case. The fact is that there exists hate, and hate moves hearts and crowds, all over the world.
Think, for instance, in the hate present in so many street manifestations and in the stones and threats escaping from infuriated mouths – legitimately or no, it doesn’t matter, in this case. The fact is that there exists hate, and hate moves hearts and crowds, all over the world.
And yet, at the same time, in those same crowds, and in each individual, there is love. Love to the partner in protestation, love to the God, to the motherland, to the cause and to the ideas that are being defended.
Love and hate are linked realities. The intense love of particular causes feeds the hate of the opposing ideas and people, and that turns these loves into particularly aggressive and dangerous realities.
The love accompanied by conceptions in which adversaries are considered demoniac beings, is dangerous. The love that gives voice to our genetic instincts, that is spontaneous, animal, independent of our will, based on passion, is not a good thing. The love that is not informed, where there is no meditation, humbleness or tolerance, is dangerous.
In fact, concerning love, we shouldn’t consider spontaneity as a well – either at political and ideological levels, or at a more personal echelon. The male chauvinism, the passionate crime, the human tendency to infidelity are natural and spontaneous and they often escape our consciences. They have a genetic bottom. And yet they are not good.
And they can and must be opposed – by way of values, by our conscience, by our intelligence. In other words, by way of our reason. After all, love isn’t necessarily independent of our reason
The love accompanied by conceptions in which adversaries are considered demoniac beings, is dangerous. The love that gives voice to our genetic instincts, that is spontaneous, animal, independent of our will, based on passion, is not a good thing. The love that is not informed, where there is no meditation, humbleness or tolerance, is dangerous.
In fact, concerning love, we shouldn’t consider spontaneity as a well – either at political and ideological levels, or at a more personal echelon. The male chauvinism, the passionate crime, the human tendency to infidelity are natural and spontaneous and they often escape our consciences. They have a genetic bottom. And yet they are not good.
And they can and must be opposed – by way of values, by our conscience, by our intelligence. In other words, by way of our reason. After all, love isn’t necessarily independent of our reason
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