'Agape' love is pretty much a love that cures all. It gives well being to all of us in order to erase the ill being in us all. Love is what makes us happy and ultimately satisfied. That's inherently how the author describes Agape love.
'Agape' love is a virtue because it's a kind of love that remains trapped within itself and within us.
According to this author, 'Agape' love is more than imaginary, which is what eros and philia is.
Weil thinks that the world is ours, but not God's. He believes that God lives in Heaven, and he is absent from the world.
Weil claims that 'agape' love is passion, grace, and all things that are the opposite of cruel and sad.
The love of couples can sometimes approach 'agape' love. They can do this by recognizing experiences of love and by seeing if those experiences agree with their ideas of love. That's what love is all about in the end. Matching makes happiness.
A person can transition from eros to philia to agape -- changing from one type of love to the other -- by loving selfishly to selflessly, than from selfish love of the partner to selfless love of the partner, than from covetousness to benevolence, and from benevolence to charity.
"Charity" is love transfigured into virtue.
Without charity we are all living our lives without true love. Charity is what gives us virtue, and without virtue we are emotionless wrecks. Life is meant to have love, and in all and all love is the most important thing in life. Who wants to live a lonely life? I know I sure as hell don't. It is love that commits us to morality, and if our morals are good, than our charity is well developed, and if that's the case than our lives are worth being lived.
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