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Summary Of The Different Faces Of Love Wong

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There are many different types of loving relationships we find ourselves establishing throughout our lives. In The Different Faces of Love Wong describes the three types of love; including “the answer of “no reasons” and “reasons that are non-relational qualities of the beloved,” there is the answer that the reasons for love are the relationships between lovers.” (Wong, 6) In this paper I will describes that love of familial is truest form of love because it incorporates characteristics from the three different forms of love. I will be using text from David Wong’s article, Unrequited Love, and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Wong uses many colleagues to support his ideas. The example Frankfort uses with his daughter to describe the “no reason” love is “One does not love one’s children because of some value inherent in them independent of one’s loving them.” (Wong, 3) This could be interpreted as they do not need to prove anything or have a desired characteristic for us to love them. He also states that “love for one’s children seems to be the purest paradigm for the kind of love he has in mind.” (Wong, 3) This is because it goes beyond getting to know them. You share …show more content…

The premise of the Unrequited Love article is that in some friendship relationships deeper feelings start to arise. We find “the development of one-sided attraction may be fostered by a wide variety of factors,” (Unrequited Love, 379) One person initially has to face rejection because they do not fit the others standards of what they look for in a partner sexually. According to this study when rejected from the “rejecters” the “would-be lovers” felt a lowering in self-esteem. (Unrequited Love, 383) In familial love you don’t have to go through this type of rejection. Because the attraction component is taken away from the equation it becomes easier to know them as a person rather than as a

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