Beyond Friendship and Eros

Beyond Friendship and Eros
Title Beyond Friendship and Eros PDF eBook
Author John R. Scudder Jr.
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 148
Release 2001-07-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780791451168

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Explores deep intimate personal relationships between men and women.

Beyond Friendship and Eros

Beyond Friendship and Eros
Title Beyond Friendship and Eros PDF eBook
Author John R. Scudder Jr.
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 144
Release 2001-07-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0791489973

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Culminating 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

The Four Loves
Title The Four Loves PDF eBook
Author Clive Staples Lewis
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 166
Release 1991
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780151329168

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Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.

The Four Loves

The Four Loves
Title The Four Loves PDF eBook
Author C. S. Lewis
Publisher HarperCollins
Pages 96
Release 2017-02-14
Genre Religion
ISBN 0062565451

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The 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

Beyond Friendship and Eros
Title Beyond Friendship and Eros PDF eBook
Author John R. Scudder Jr.
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 144
Release 2001-07-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780791451151

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Explores deep intimate personal relationships between men and women.

Love and Friendship

Love and Friendship
Title Love and Friendship PDF eBook
Author Eduardo A. Velásquez
Publisher Lexington Books
Pages 672
Release 2003
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780739101223

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These 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

Socrates' Daimonic Art
Title Socrates' Daimonic Art PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth S. Belfiore
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages
Release 2012-03-08
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1107378230

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Despite 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.