 A third kind of view of love understands love to be a distinctive mode of valuing a person. As the distinction between eros and agape in  Section 1  indicates, there are at least two ways to construe this in terms of whether the lover values the beloved because she is valuable, or whether the beloved comes to be valuable to the lover as a result of her loving him. The former view, which understands the lover as appraising the value of the beloved in loving him, is the topic of  Section 4.1,  whereas the latter view, which understands her as bestowing value on him, will be discussed in  Section 4.2.