This is becauseagapeis too distant from its objects, and involves no necessary mutuality, a feature which makes it destructive of altruism.
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In this scene it is eros rather thanagapethat reigns.
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The astonished fiancée stands with mouthagape, eyes downcast and shut, as she presses her left hand beneath her heart, as if to uphold it.
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What this omission reveals is the inadequacy of an exclusive focus onagapeas the central ethical concept.
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This type of love is what we callagape.
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These are the merely inane, and artists sometimes portray them with mouthagape, teeth erose and prominent.
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I have used the terms eros andagape, but this duality can also be expressed in other contrasting terms, such as those of the flesh and the spirit.
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It coherently combines a variety of attitudes which might otherwise be at odds with each other (not least the vexing distinction between eros andagape, need and gift love).
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I am rather sardonically amused at the way in which it is the secularists whose mouths areagapewhen they come across sin, as if they cannot understand it.
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The highest form of contemplation originates in the heart (seeagape), a higher form of contemplation than that of the intellect.
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Many members of the astonished audience were seen on camera with mouths visiblyagapewith surprise.
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The other three are "storge", "philia" and "agape".
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There are, however, three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity (which is used interchangeably with love in the sense of "agape").
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The whales then lunge feed, often as a synchronised group, suddenly swimming upward through the net, mouthsagape, swallowing thousands of fish in one gulp.
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The wounds were sometimes packed with horsehair and leftagape, so as to make them more extreme in appearance.
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