The nature of love

Description

"Begins by studying love as appraisal and bestowal as well as imagination and idealization. Then examines the contrasting views of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Ovid, Lucretius, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther. After having described the nature of erotic idealization, Singer analyzes the religious idealization in Judeo-Christian concepts of eros, philia, nomos, and agapē. Medieval Catholicism sought to combine these four ideas of love in the "caritas synthesis." Luther repudiated that attempt on the grounds that love exists only in God's agapastic bestowal of unlimited goodness upon humanity and all of nature. In relation to the different modes of theorizing, Singer explores the humanistic implications of each"-- Publishers website.

Subjects

Series Statement

• The Irving Singer library

Other Editions

• The nature of loveMIT Press2009-01-01
• The nature of loveRandom House1966-01-01
• The nature of loveRandom House1966-01-01
• The nature of loveRandom House1966-01-01
• The nature of loveUniversity of Chicago Press1984-01-01
• The Nature of LoveHardcoverUniv of Chicago Pr (Tx)1984-11-01