Where Love is Lacking
Where Love is Lacking (A Critique of the Wikipedia) Fr Symeon Agiomicheltites The Wikipedia article on Robert Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love provides a comprehensive overview of his framework, which categorizes love into three fundamental components: intimacy, passion, and commitment. This critique, grounded in an Agapic Ontological Personalist (AOP) Philosophy of Agaposofia framework, highlights the article's limitations in addressing love's ethical, spiritual, and transformative dimensions. Introduction The Triangular Theory of Love, developed by psychologist Robert Sternberg, outlines love as a combination of three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment (Sternberg, 1986). While this theory has gained traction as a framework for understanding romantic and interpersonal relationships, its psychological reductionism leaves critical dimensions of love unexplored. This critique examines the Wikipedia article on Sternberg's theory, evaluates it...