JAPANESE

Ai
In Japanese Buddhism, ai (?)is passionate caring love, and a fundamental desire. It can develop towards either selfishness or selflessness and enlightenment.

Amae
Amae (甘え), a Japanese word meaning "indulgent dependence" is part of the child rearing culture of Japan. Japanese mothers are expected to hug and indulge their children, and children are expected to reward their mothers by clinging and serving. Sociologists have suggested that Japanese social interactions in later life are modelled on the mother-child amae.

CHINESE

Ai
The Chinese philosopher Mo Zi developed ai (愛) in reaction to Confucian jen (戀). Ai is universal love towards all beings, not just towards friends or family, without regard to reciprocation. Extravagance and offensive war are inimical to ai. Although Mo Zi was influential, the Confucian jen is how most modern Chinese conceive of love.

Gănqíng
Gănqíng (感情), the feeling of a relationship. A person will express love by building good gănqíng, accomplished through helping or working for another.

Jen
In Confucianism, jen is a virtuous benevolent love. Jen should be pursued by all human beings, and reflects a moral life.

Yuanfen
Yuanfen (缘份), a connection of bound destinies. A meaningful relationship is dependent on there being strong yuanfen.

The Idea Of LoveThrough The Ages

The Impact of Love on the Concept of Man in Western Philosophy and Theology
By Tore Frost

"In this connection I want to remind you of the fact that in the classical tradition they used only one word to describe passion as well as suffering, namely "pathos", which means that Love explains the intensity in every kind of infernal suffering and bereavement as well as the more life-sustaining, divine moments of joy and happiness."

Kahlil Gibran, quote from "The Broken Wings"

"It is wrong to think that Love comes from long companionship or persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of a spiritual affinity, and unless that affinity is created IN A MOMENT, it will not be created in years or even generations."

PHIL...

PHILIA
"friendship": Greek term for a love relationship based on mutual admiration and respect rather than sexual attraction.

PHILEO
and storge describe friendship love and love for one's family.

PHILEO
This Greek word has the idea of emotional love. While AGAPE emphasizes the complete giving of love to another person, PHILEO emphasizes the affection, emotion, a fondness one person has for another.

A PHILIA is the love or obsession with a particular thing or subject. The suffix -philia is used to specify the love or obsession with something more specific. It is antonymic to -phobia.

Philia as a greek word for love refers to brotherly love, including friendship and affection. This contrasts to the Greek terms Eros, or sexual/romantic love, and agape, or detached, spiritual love. However, it should be noted that English usage differs in some cases from the eytmological use, and several of these words refer in English not to brotherly love but to sexual attraction.

The suffix -phile (or, in a few cases, -philiac) applies to someone who has one of these philia. It is the antonym of -phobic.


PHILANTHROPIA - Love for mankind
PHILADELPHIA - Brotherly love
PHILEMA - A kiss
PHILIA - Friendship love
PHILOS - A love for a friend or relative
PHILOSTORGOS - Tender love or affectionate love

STERGO

- "natural affection": Greek word for love based a natural bond; e.g, the love between a brother and sister or a parent and child.

- primarily refers to love between parents and children. It sometimes refers to love between people and their ruler and to love between a dog and his owner.

EROS

- was, in Greek mythology, the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His name is the root of words such as erotic. His Roman equivalent was Cupid, "desire", also known as Amor, "love". He was often associated with Aphrodite. He was, like Dionysus, sometimes referred to as Eleutherios, "the liberator".
Throughout Greek thought, there appear to be two sides to the conception of Eros; in the first, he is a primeval deity who embodies not only the force of erotic love but also the creative urge of ever-flowing nature, the first-born Light that is responsible for the coming into being and ordering of all things in the cosmos.
http://www.biography.ms

- "desire): the Greek term for sexual attraction or romantic love.

- the word came from the Latin god of hormones, it was used to refer to sensual or sexual love.

- refers to love between a husband and wife. It is more than sexual ecstasy because it also includes embraces, longing, and caring.

AGAPÉ

- is the Greek word for divine, unconditional love. Greek philosophers at the time of Plato used it in a way that suggested a universal, as opposed a personal, love; this could mean love of truth, or love of humanity. The term was used by the early Christians to refer to the special love for God and God's love for man, as well as the self-sacrificing love they believed all should have for each other.

- "charity" or "devotion": Greek word signifying a particularly selfless and altruistic form of love.

- love is willful and deliberate. Unconditional.
The Latin word is "caritas" from which we get "charity."

- This word was used in Greek literature to refer to someone who was generously favored by a god. It has the idea of a person giving all his or her love or favor to another. It was used to speak of parents giving all of their love to their only child. So in the New Testament it is used to make the same point. God gives each of us all of His love.

Jesus, Gandhi, Tolstoy

"Shortly before his death in 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian author, wrote a letter to an admirer in South Africa. The letter asserted Tolstoy's belief in "the teaching of love," which Tolstoy found most completely embodied in the message of Christ. The recipient of the letter was Mohandas Gandhi, and the idea became reality in Gandhi's campaign of non-violence to oppose British rule in India. Inspired by the Sermon on the Mount, in particular, Gandhi used the most radical of tools - non-aggression - to stymie and ultimately overthrow the system of British colonial rule. By the time of Gandhi's martyrdom in 1948, the world had come to glimpse, if not appreciate, that revolutions based upon hope and non-violence, upon Christ's message of love and dignity, were difficult to repulse by the mechanisms of the State."