Beyond Friendship and Eros
Author: John R. Scudder Jr.
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2001-07-26
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780791451168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores deep intimate personal relationships between men and women.
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Beyond Friendship and Eros
Author: John R. Scudder Jr.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2001-07-26
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0791489973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCulminating a twenty-year personal and scholarly quest, the authors explore the phenomenon of loving relationships (minus the sexual attraction) between men and women. They articulate these relationships as dialogical love in which partners respond to each other's presence personally rather than categorically as friend or lover. In a society where relationships of dialogical love are neither articulated and named nor recognized as acceptable ways of being, they are usually mistaken as affairs or regarded as "just" friend relationships. Since these relationships are spontaneous, free, and open, their meaning is disclosed through examples rather than by traditional definition. Throughout the book, the authors share their own personal relationship, similar relationships of those they interviewed, and relationships from literature and popular movies. Further illuminating interpretations of friendship and love are excerpts from C. S. Lewis, Rollo May, Caroline Simon, and Robert Solomon. Personal relationships are explicated by the work of Martin Buber, John Macmurray, and Alfred Schutz.
The Four Loves
Author: Clive Staples Lewis
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780151329168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.
The Four Loves
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-02-14
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 0062565451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God.? In this work Lewis examines four varieties of love, as approached from the Greek language: storge, the most basic form; philia, the rarest and perhaps most insightful; eros, passionate love; and agape, the love of God, the greatest and least selfish. ?Throughout this compassionate and reasoned study, he encourages readers to open themselves to all forms of love—the key to understanding that brings us closer to God.? "There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable . . . draw nearer to God, not be trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armor. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it."? In Four Loves, C. S. Lewis explores love to help you · Strengthen your interpersonal relationships · Understand the different between needed pleasures and appreciation pleasures and need-love and gift-love · Care for the people in your life, avoid pitfalls, and improve your relationship God The Four Loves holds a mirror to our current society and leaves no doubt that our modern understanding of love is heavily misunderstood.
Beyond Friendship and Eros
Author: John R. Scudder Jr.
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2001-07-26
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780791451151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores deep intimate personal relationships between men and women.
Love and Friendship
Author: Eduardo A. Velásquez
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780739101223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese collected essays demonstrate that compelling and illuminating discussions of love and friendship do not fall to psychologists alone, but rightly belong among the major thinkers in the history of political philosophy.
Socrates' Daimonic Art
Author: Elizabeth S. Belfiore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-08
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1107378230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite increasing interest in the figure of Socrates and in love in ancient Greece, no recent monograph studies these topics in all four of Plato's dialogues on love and friendship. This book provides important new insights into these subjects by examining Plato's characterization of Socrates in Symposium, Phaedrus, Lysis and the often neglected Alcibiades I. It focuses on the specific ways in which the philosopher searches for wisdom together with his young interlocutors, using an art that is 'erotic', not in a narrowly sexual sense, but because it shares characteristics attributed to the daimon Eros in Symposium. In all four dialogues, Socrates' art enables him, like Eros, to search for the beauty and wisdom he recognizes that he lacks and to help others seek these same objects of erôs. Belfiore examines the dialogues as both philosophical and dramatic works, and considers many connections with Greek culture, including poetry and theater.
The Power of Divine Eros
Author: A. H. Almaas
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2013-09-17
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0834829134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo innovative spiritual teachers show how to use desire and passion—eros—as a gateway to realizing our fullest potential What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it. Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path—that engaging in desire will take you more into the world, into egoic life. And for most people, that is exactly what happens. We naturally tend to experience wanting in a self-centered way. The Power of Divine Eros challenges the view that the divine and the erotic are separate. When we open to the energy, aliveness, spontaneity, and zest of erotic love, we will find it inseparable from the realm of the holy and sacred. When this is understood, desire and passion become a gateway to wholeness and to realizing our full potential. Through guided exercises, the authors reveal how our relationships become opportunities on the spiritual journey to express ourselves authentically, to relate with openness, and to discover dynamic inner realms with another person. Through embodying the energy of eros, each of us can learn to be fully real and alive in all of our interactions.
Spiritual Friendship
Author: Wesley Hill
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 2015-04-14
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1441227512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristianity Today Book Award Winner Friendship is a relationship like no other. Unlike the relationships we are born into, we choose our friends. It is also tenuous--we can end a friendship at any time. But should friendship be so free and unconstrained? Although our culture tends to pay more attention to romantic love, marriage, family, and other forms of community, friendship is a genuine love in its own right. This eloquent book reminds us that Scripture and tradition have a high view of friendship. Single Christians, particularly those who are gay and celibate, may find it is a form of love to which they are especially called. Writing with deep empathy and with fidelity to historic Christian teaching, Wesley Hill retrieves a rich understanding of friendship as a spiritual vocation and explains how the church can foster friendship as a basic component of Christian discipleship. He helps us reimagine friendship as a robust form of love that is worthy of honor and attention in communities of faith. This book sets forth a positive calling for celibate gay Christians and suggests practical ways for all Christians to cultivate stronger friendships.
Plato's Dialogue on Friendship
Author: Plato
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780801495618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1979, Plato's Dialogue on Friendship is the first book-length interpretation of the Lysis in English, offering both a full analysis and a literal translation of this frequently neglected Platonic dialogue. David Bolotin interprets the Lysis as an important work in its own right and places it in the context of Plato's other writings. He attempts to show that despite Socrates' apparent failure to discover what a friend is, a coherent understanding of friendship emerges in the Lysis. His commentary follows the dialogue closely, and his interpretation unfolds gradually, as he is providing a detailed summary of the Lysis itself. Mr. Bolotin's translation captures the playfulness and rich ambiguities of the Lysis and its effectiveness as conversational drama. His book, written with precision and clarity, should be useful to students of political philosophy and ancient philosophy.
