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Vol. 62 No. 4 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2013.90
L'amore e la sessualità: valore e significato
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In the light of Pope Benedict the XVIth's Deus Caritas est, the article seeks to show that man's desire to be profoundly loved for himself and to love is not a utopian one; if it follows a path of healing and of harmonization with the other goals of human life, this desire becomes whole and complete, thus permeating and rendering human eros strong and beautiful. It is a path that leads and helps the person to achieve a limpid gaze, capable of seeing the person in the flesh of the beloved, unifying the various elements the make up the rich experience of love - sexual attraction, emotions, the will's choice, reason - within an action that is ordered towards the true good of the other. If these precious elements are not kept together though, love is not just impoverished, but most importantly it is threatened to fall apart. Man needs therefore to find those ways of unification and harmonization of love, which are none other than the virtues, especially the virtue of chastity. Human virtues are true resources for acquiring the art of a qualitative love, which continues to seek its fullness and excellence. Thus the virtues do not render us "immune" or "opaque" towards reality, they do not do away with the ontological vulnerability to the world and to the other people. Instead, they help us to eradicate that malady which disintegrates us morally and which abandons us to our weaknesses, which then become wounds that can never heal; a fragmented eros make us drown in the tragedy of not being able to reach what eros promises. Human love thus harmonized is in fact an eros touched and reborn of Eternity, which embraces time - instead of escaping it - edifying a strong and genially creative love, a love which always affirming its bodily mediation. Agape does not destroy eros, but it cherishes and exalts it, offering man the necessary freedom to love: to love preserving the concept of difference involved in a relationship; to love responding to the gift with a gift of self; to love the fruitfulness that true love implies, since true love is never sterile.
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L’amore e la sessualità: valore e significato. (2013). Medicina E Morale, 62(4). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2013.90
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