Love & Beauty Unconference
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• It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment
• It can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another"
• It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals
• Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states; words like storge, philia, eros, and agape each describe a unique "concept" of love
• Love has additional religious or spiritual meaning—notably in Abrahamic religions
• This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states
• Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts
• Love may be understood as a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species