THY3 UNIT 3 LESSON 1
Enumerate the Metaphysical Analysis of Love
1. Love as an Attraction 2. Love as a Desire 3. Love as a Goodwill 4. The Problem of Reciprocity 5. From Sympathy to Friendship 6. Betrothed Love A-D-G-P-S-B
What Metaphysical Analysis of Love? Love is not just an aspiration, but rather a coming together, a unification of persons. ________ differs from all the aspects or forms of love analyzed hitherto. Its decisive character is the giving of one's own person (to another).
Betrothed Love
What Metaphysical Analysis of Love? The essence of ______ is self-giving, the surrender of one's "I". When betrothed love enters into this interpersonal relationship something more than friendship results: two people give themselves each to the other.
Betrothed Love
Every person, whether married or single, is called to live a chaste life. Like any virtue, _____ must be developed and practiced because our sexual attractions and feelings are so strong and intense, often overpowering. Chastity is defined as the purity of the mind and the heart.
Chastity
the virtue that calls us to use our sexuality in a reasonable, responsible, and faithful manner.
Chastity
7. Christ manifests the love with which he has loved her [the Church] by giving himself for her. That love is an image and above all a model of the love which the husband should show to his wife in marriage, when the two are subject to each other out of reverence for ____.
Christ
__________ view behavior as the result of an interaction between evolved mechanisms and environmental influence.
Contemporary evolutionary theorists
______ theory focuses our attention on the social construction of categories, the ways they are applied to people, and the consequences for individuals and society.
Critical
From the _________, sociobiologists view human sexual behaviors as the product of natural selection in evolution and thus view these behavioral patterns as being genetically controlled.
Evolutionary Perspectives
_____ theory highlights the role of rewards and costs in relationships.
Exchange
______ theory systematically analyzes the meaning of gender in contemporary society.
Feminist
Among the psychological theories, _____'s psychoanalytic theory views the sex energy, or libido, as a major influence on personality and behavior.
Freud
What Metaphysical Analysis of Love? ____ brings out the element of benevolentia or goodwill (I want what is good for you), and also the characteristic doubling of the subject, the doubling of the "I": my "I" and your "I" form a moral unity, for the will is equally well inclined to both of them.
From Sympathy to Friendship Friendship
What Metaphysical Analysis of Love? ____ is a manifestation of experience rather than of activity: people succumb to it in ways which they sometimes find incomprehensible themselves, and the will is captured by the pull of emotions and sensations which bring two people closer together regardless of whether one of them has consciously chosen the other.
From Sympathy to Friendship Sympathy
_____ theory emphasizes how sexual behavior is learned and modified through reinforcements and punishments according to principles of operant conditioning.
Learning
What Metaphysical Analysis of Love? ___ too belongs to the very essence of the love which springs up between man and woman. This results from the fact that the human person is a limited being, not self sufficient and therefore putting it in the most objective way needs other beings. The subject in love is conscious of [desire's] presence, knows that it is there at his or her disposal so to speak, but working to perfect this love, will see to it that desire does not dominate, does not overwhelm all else that love comprises.
Love as a Desire
What Metaphysical Analysis of Love? Love is the fullest realization of the possibilities inherent in man. A genuine love is one in which the true essence of love is realized a love which is directed to a genuine (not merely an apparent) good.
Love as a Goodwill
What Metaphysical Analysis of Love? Feelings arise spontaneously the attraction which one person feels towards another often begins suddenly and unexpectedly but this reaction is in effect blind.
Love as an Attraction
The intellection of ______ that reduces man to a simple element of nature whose body is seen as a machine with different parts that are functionally united and devoid of personal meaning.
Naturalism
The abstraction of _____ that propagates the idea of a God who has nothing to do with sexuality and living as though He does not exist.
Nihilism
HUMAN SEXUALITY: ________ in his letter about the urgent task of educating young people, placed emphasis on the contemporary times being immersed in a mindset and form of culture that induce one to have doubts about the value of the human person, about the very meaning of truth and good, and ultimately about the goodness of life.
Pope Benedict XVI
_____ theory challenges the gender binary and the sexual orientation binary, arguing that gender expression and sexual orientation are both dimensions along which individuals vary.
Queer
Human Sexuality finds crisis in appreciating its true meaning.. The prevalence of _____ that celebrates man as an absolute arbiter between what is right and what is wrong.
Relativism
____ in his phenomenal book Human Sexuality perceives ______ as "a complex area of study that focuses on all aspects of humans as sexual beings. This includes such topics as sexual anatomy and responses, sexual feelings and behaviors, intimate relationships, sexual identity and desires, sexual health and wellbeing, and the way we perceive and express our individual sexual selves."
Roger Hock human sexuality
____ is relevant as we respond to our vocation of love and communion.
Sexuality
______ as stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church "affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his/her body and soul. It especially concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate, and in a more general way the aptitude for forming bonds of communion with others." CCC, 2332
Sexuality
_____ learning theory adds the concepts of imitation, identification, and self-efficacy to learning theory.
Social
______ study the ways in which society influences our sexual expression
Sociologists
Chastity is a deep respect and admiration for the person AND for the gifts of our sexuality and sex. As _____ puts it, chastity is the readiness to affirm and love the person in every situation. You know what you are saying no to by living chastely, but what are you saying YES to?
St. John Paul II
Nuptial Meaning of the Body: _______ reminds us in the apostolic exhortation, Familiaris Consortio, that "the vocation of the human person is realized in marriage and virginity or celibacy." "God's plan for marriage involves total self-giving of man and woman to each other."
St. John Paul II
_______ pointed out that if we live according to the truth of our sexuality , we fulfill the very meaning of our being and existence. The opposite is also true. If we do not live according to the truth of our sexuality, we miss the meaning of our existence altogether. We forfeit true joy, true happiness.
St. Pope John Paul II
What Metaphysical Analysis of Love? Love is by its very nature not unilateral but bilateral, something between two persons, something shared.
The Problem of Reciprocity
What Metaphysical Analysis of Love? Love is not just something in the man and something in the woman for in that case there would properly speaking be two loves but is something common to them.
The Problem of Reciprocity
5. The freedom of the gift is the response to the deep awareness of the gift... Through this truth and freedom that love is built up, which we must affirm is ____ love.
authentic
As a person, I long for the mystery of ______ with my fellow human beings and the mystery of ____.
communion love
"It is realized in a truly human way only if it is an integral part of the love by which a man and woman commit themselves totally to one another until _____."
death
"It is an illusion to think we can build a true culture of human life if we do not . . . accept and experience sexuality and love and the whole of life according to their true meaning and their close interconnection. "Our creation as male and female and our longing for communion is 'the fundamental fact' of human _____.
existence
This great mystery expressed in one flesh is an ____ of love, not devoid of meaning but finds its meaning in love.
externalization
"God created man in his own image... male and female he created them." Marriage is for the _____ and family is for the _______. As Lisa Cahill stated "marriage is intimately connected to family... God will rather build his kingdom of heaven over this work."
family kingdom of God
St. Pope John Paul II's book Love and Responsibility presents a truth about the human person and the path toward true love will allow us to live in authentic _____
freedom
The human body includes right from the beginning...the capacity of expressing love, that love in which the person becomes a ____ - and by means of this gift - fulfills the meaning of his being and existence.
gift
As the Catechism of the Catholic Church succinctly puts it "man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his/her sexual ______. Physical, moral, and spiritual difference and complementarity are oriented toward the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life.
identity
"Sexuality, by means of which man and woman give themselves to one another through the acts which are proper and exclusive to spouses, is not something simply biological, but concerns the ______ being of the human person as such."
innermost
The Catholic Church's teaching on Human Sexuality is anchored on the truth that - God is ____ and (he is love) in himself he lives a mystery of personal loving communion.
love
4. That original ______, mutual and at the same time not weighed down by shame, expresses this interior freedom of man.... At the root of their nakedness is the interior freedom of the gift - the disinterested gift of oneself.
nakedness
"The acts in marriage by which the intimate and chaste union of the spouses takes place are _____ and ______; the truly human performance of these acts fosters the self- giving they signify and enriches the spouses in joy and gratitude."
noble and honorable
2. Understanding the fundamental meanings contained in the mystery of creation, such as the _____ meaning of the body...is important. It is indispensable in order to know who man is and who he should be, and therefore how he should mold his own activity.
nupital
Our _______ bodies were made precisely to show us this and be the means by which we accomplish it.
physical
The person is a good towards which the only proper and adequate attitude is love. The value of the person is always greater than the value of _____
pleasure
At the macro level, sociologists investigate the ways in which institutions such as religion, the economy, the family, medicine, and the law influence ______.
sexuality
3. The body, and it alone, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the ______ and the _____. It was created to transfer into the visible reality of the world the mystery hidden since time immemorial in God [God's love for man], and thus to be a sign of it.
the spiritual and the divine
6. The marriage act... 'at the same time _____ husband and wife in the closest intimacy' and together makes them capable of generating new life. 'Both the one and the other happen through the fundamental structure.'
unites
