The Metaphysics of Love
Author: Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
Publisher:
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
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The Metaphysics Of The Love Of The Sexes
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: FV Éditions
Published: 2013-09-28
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 236668665X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs Love an Illusion ? What is the relationship between Love and Sexual Impulse ? Schopenhauer gives us a new way of thinking about relationships between men and women.
Ahmad al-Ghazālī, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of Love
Author: Joseph E. B. Lumbard
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2016-10-20
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1438459661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe teachings of Aḥmad al-Ghazālī changed the course of Persian Sufism forever, paving the way for luminaries such as Rūmī, Aṭṭār, and Ḥāfiẓ. Yet he remains a poorly understood thinker, with many treatises incorrectly attributed to him and conflicting accounts in the historiographical literature. This work provides the first examination of Aḥmad al-Ghazālī and his work in Western scholarly literature. Joseph E. B. Lumbard seeks to ascertain the authenticity of works attributed to this author, trace the development of the dominant trends in the biographical literature, and reconstruct the life and times of Aḥmad al-Ghazālī with particular attention to his relationship with his more famous brother, Abū Hamid al-Ghazālī. Lumbard's findings revolutionize our understanding of Aḥmad al-Ghazālī writings, allowing for focus on his central teachings regarding Divine Love and the remembrance of God.
Eros and the Mysteries of Love
Author: Julius Evola
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 1991-04
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780892813155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA controversial philosopher and critic of modern Western civilization, Julius Evola (1898-1974) writes about the mystical and spiritual expression of sexual love. This in-depth study explores the sexual rites of sacred traditions, and shows how religion, mysticism, folklore, and mythology all contain erotic forms in which the deep potentialities of human beings are recognized.
What Love Is
Author: Carrie Jenkins
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2017-01-24
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 046509886X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questions What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social construct (the idea of a perfect fairy tale romance) and a physical manifestation (those anxiety- inducing heart palpitations); we must recognize its complexities and decide for ourselves how to love. Motivated by her own polyamorous relationships, she examines the ways in which our parameters of love have recently changed-to be more accepting of homosexual, interracial, and non-monogamous relationships-and how they will continue to evolve in the future. Full of anecdotal, cultural, and scientific reflections on love, What Love Is is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand what it means to say "I love you." Whether young or old, gay or straight, male or female, polyamorous or monogamous, this book will help each of us decide for ourselves how we choose to love.
Plotinus on Love: An Introduction to His Metaphysics through the Concept of Eros
Author: Alberto Bertozzi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9004441026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Plotinus on Love, Alberto Bertozzi argues that love is the origin, culmination, and regulative force of the double movement that characterizes Plotinus' metaphysics: the derivation of all reality from the One and the return of the soul to it.
The Metaphysics of the Sexual Love
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2018-12-12
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781791542269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Schopenhauer innovates by introducing the issue of sexuality into western philosophy. Of course, his assessment of it is not an encouraging one. For him, it embodies the will to life more strongly than any other urge or desire; hence it is responsible for the misery of the human condition more than anything else. Even the most elevated form of romantic love is nothing but a mental addition or justification for the natural need for sex and the species' desire to maintain itself. After succumbing to our sexual desires, he says, we realize that we have once again been deceived by the instinct of survival that seeks procreation through us. The lessening of sexual desire with age is thus to be welcomed as a liberation. Needless to say, Schopenhauer remained celibate throughout his life." Schopenhauer, New world encyclopedia.
The Philosophy of (erotic) Love
Author: Robert C. Solomon
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSolomon and Higgins have chosen excerpts from the great philosophical texts and combined them with the most exciting new work of philosophers writing today. It examines the mysteries of erotic love from a variety of philosophical perspectives and provides an impressive display of wisdom that the world's best thinkers have brought, and continue to bring, to the study of love.
A Metaphysics of Love
Author: George Pattison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 019881352X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the third part of a philosophy of Christian life, A Metaphysics of Love builds on a view of Christian life as shaped by the dynamic of call, response, and promise. It argues that love is the ultimate content of this dynamic and considers how far this claim extends. Taking its bearings from Dante's vision of divine love as 'the power that moves the sun and other stars', this study explores the requirement that love is both human and cosmic, uniting being and beings. Cognizant of much recent philosophy's desire to overcome or move beyond a metaphysics of being, it examines some of the formal structures that make love possible, including language, time, social being, forgiveness, and ultimacy. Following on from the earlier volumes, extensive use is made of the idea of the poetic as the eminent mode of Christian witness, contextualized within the prose of everyday life. Heidegger provides fundamental philosophical orientation, whilst key features of love are brought to the fore through dialogue with Kierkegaard. Dante and Dostoevsky are frequent points of reference, in addition to a range of literary and religious sources, including the Scottish poet Edwin Muir. Leading scholar George Pattison concludes that the phenomenon of love requires us to articulate a metaphysics that involves both being and nothingness, thereby taking a critical position vis-à-vis both classical theism and existential atheism.
The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love
Author: Christopher Grau
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 681
ISBN-13: 0199395721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love offers a wide array of original essays from leading philosophers on the nature and value of love.
