Philosophy Is Everybody's Business.

It Is Love Rather Than Sexual Lust Or Unbridled Sexuality If, In Addition To The Need Or Want Involved, There Is Also Some Impulse To Give Pleasure To The Persons Thus Loved And Not Merely To Use Them For Our Own Selfish Pleasure.

We Love Even When Our Love Is Not Requited.

We Are Selfish When We Are Exclusively Or Predominantly Concerned With The Good For Ourselves. We Are Altruistic When We Are Exclusively Or Predominantly Concerned With The Good Of Others.

I Find The Selectivity Of Erotic Love - The Choice Of This Man Or This Woman - Much More Intelligible If Liking The Person Is The Origin Of Sexual Interest, Rather Than The Other Way.

One Of The Embarrassing Problems For The Early Nineteenth-century Champions Of The Christian Faith Was That Not One Of The First Six Presidents Of The United States Was An Orthodox Christian.