Meanings of Love An Introduction to Philosophy of Love

Name: Meanings of Love An Introduction to Philosophy of Love
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ISBN: 9780275958404

ISBN-10: 027595840X

ISBN-13: 9780275958404

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert E. Wagoner

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This study asserts that even though we have only one word for love, six fundamentally different meanings can be distinguished: erotic love, Christian love, romantic love, moral love, love as power, and mutual love. Wagoner identifies each of these ideas of love in terms of the special meaning it brings to experience. No one meaning is comprehensive. Each is shown to have a logic and legitimacy of its own. Why each view seems real and compelling is the focus of separate discussions, as well as the price that may be exacted by each idea. The extent to which these ideas throw light on actual experience is striking, but the book is not an empirical or psychological inquiry. How one self finds…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 5/21/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Erotic Love: Plato: Symposium and Phaedrus Christian Love: Genesis 1 to I Corinthians 13 Romantic Love: Tristan and Iseult and Heloise and Abelard Moral Love: Immanuel Kant and Soren Kierkegaard Love as Power: Hobbes, Hegel and Jean-Paul Sartre Mutual Love: Aristotle and Luce Irigaray


Conclusion


Selected Bibliography


Index