Estudio introductorio a las bipolaridades del amor en el pensamiento occidental premoderno y moderno

Abstract

Love, from the outset, seems to be a polysemous term that has been understood in multiple ways throughout the history of philosophy as a desire, a passion, or an affection. Hence, it includes such opposing approaches as those for whom it consists of a mere passionate inclination towards someone or something, to those who distinguish it as a disinterested tendency, generally supported by a value, such as love for truth or justice. In this article, however, we try to show that it is possible to trace some bipolarities based on the Greek and Latin roots of this term, in its nature and intensity, and in the object to which it is directed, which make it possible to better understand the wide philosophical cartography of love.