Christianity, according to Friedrich Nietzsche, would have given poisoned eros, which, while not co

romantic love, often passionate, up to violence. A love of conquest which inevitably reduces the other to the subject of his own pleasure and ignores every dimension of sacrifice, loyalty and self-giving. There is no need to insist in the description of this love because thales electron devices it is a reality that we have on a daily basis under the eyes, as it is propagated in a pounding from novels, movies, television dramas, internet, magazines called "pink." This is what the common language means, now, with the word "love". [1]
Freud has given a boost to this line, reducing the love of eros and eros in libido, a pure sexual drive. Hence also the standard connection between Eros and Thanatos, between love and death [2]. The love which by its nature should bring to life, instead now leads to death.
The believers, on the contrary, continues Cantalamessa, often experience thales electron devices a 'agape thales electron devices without eros, a love that is cold, cerebral, virtuosic, made more than good will that momentum, duty rather than pleasure.
If the component linked to emotion and heart, is systematically denied or repressed, the outcome will be twofold: either you pull forward wearily, and a sense of duty to defend its image, or you seek compensation more or less legal, until the painful circumstances that we know well. At the bottom of many moral deviations of consecrated souls, you can not ignore, there is a distorted and twisted conception of love. [3]
Many theologians [4] trace this rift to the New Testament, and St. Paul in particular, that, almost exclusively using the word agape, eros would thereby eliminated by reducing it to sin and then to vice.
Christianity, according to Friedrich Nietzsche, would have given poisoned eros, which, while not completely succumbing, he would suddenly gradually degenerated thales electron devices into vice. [5] With the German philosopher was expressing a widely-held perception: thales electron devices the Church thales electron devices with its commandments and prohibitions, does not make us bitter perhaps the most beautiful thing in life? Does not she signs prohibiting right there where joy, prepared for us by the Creator thales electron devices offers us a happiness that something gives us a foretaste of the Divine? [6]
It is assumed that the authors of the NT are aware of both the sense that the term eros had in common parlance - eros so-called "vulgar" - both the highest and philosophical sense he had, for instance, in Plato, the so-called eros "noble ". Nell'accezione popular, eros showed more or less indicates that even today, thales electron devices when we talk about eroticism or erotic films, namely the satisfaction of the sexual instinct, a degradation rather than rise. Nell'accezione noble, it showed thales electron devices the love of beauty, the force that holds the world together and pushes all beings to the unit. (...) It is difficult thales electron devices to argue that the authors of the New Testament, addressing simple people of any culture, intended to warn eros of Plato. They avoided the term eros for the same reason why a preacher avoids today the term erotic or, if he uses it, it does so only in a negative sense. The reason is that, then as now, the word evokes love in its most selfish and sensual. The suspicion of the early Christians towards the eros was further compounded by the role it held in the wild Dionysian cults. [8]
As soon as Christianity came into contact and dialogue with the Greek culture of the time, immediately falls every foreclosure eros. It is used often in Greek authors, as a synonym for agape and is used to indicate God's love for man as well as man's love for God, love for the virtues and all things nice .
Benedict XVI invites you to find a synthesis between eros and agape that comes from a background of clarification: "eros needs to be disciplined and purified if it is to provide not just fleeting pleasure, thales electron devices but a certain foretaste of the pinnacle of ' existence, thales electron devices of that beatitude for which our whole being yearns "[9]. Comment Cantalamessa: "If momentum means eros, desire, attraction, we should not be afraid of the feelings, nor despise them and repress them" [10]. But we need to educate them, manage them, purify them because they do not become our fiercest bosses ready to enslave us.
Should he aspire to be pure spirit and to reject the flesh as pertaining to his animal nature alone, then spirit and body would both lose their dignity. And if, on the other hand, should he deny the spirit and consider the