Friendship and Love, Ethics and Politics

Friendship and Love, Ethics and Politics
Title Friendship and Love, Ethics and Politics PDF eBook
Author Eva Österberg
Publisher Central European University Press
Pages 236
Release 2010-01-10
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 6155211795

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Today, friendship, love and sexuality are mostly viewed as private, personal and informal relations. In the mediaeval and early modern period, just like in ancient times, this was different. The classical philosophy of friendship (Aristotle) included both friendship and love in the concept of philia. It was also linked to an argument about the virtues needed to become an excellent member of the city state. Thus, close relations were not only thought to be a matter of pleasant gatherings in privacy, but just as much a matter of ethics and politics.What, then, happened to the classical ideas of close relations when they were transmitted to philosophers, clerical and monastic thinkers, state officials or other people in the medieval and early modern period? To what extent did friendship transcend the distinctions between private and public that then existed? How were close relations shaped in practice? Did dialogues with close friends help to contribute to the process of subject-formation in the Renaissance and Enlightenment? To what degree did institutions of power or individual thinkers find it necessary to caution against friendship or love and sexuality?

Love, Human and Divine

Love, Human and Divine
Title Love, Human and Divine PDF eBook
Author Edward Collins Vacek
Publisher Georgetown University Press
Pages 380
Release 1994-04-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9781589013629

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Although the two great commandments to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves are central to Christianity, few theologians or spiritual writers have undertaken an extensive account of the meaning and forms of these loves. Most accounts, in fact, make love of God and love of self either impossible or immoral. Integrating these two commandments, Edward Vacek, SJ, develops an original account of love as the theological foundation for Christian ethics. Vacek criticizes common understandings of agape, eros, and philia, examining the arguments of Aquinas, Nygren, Outka, Rahner, Scheler, and other theologians and philosophers. He defines love as an emotional, affirmative participation in the beloved's real and ideal goodness, and he extends this definition to the love between God and self. Vacek proposes that the heart of Christian moral life is loving cooperation with God in a mutually perfecting friendship.

The Supremacy of Love

The Supremacy of Love
Title The Supremacy of Love PDF eBook
Author Eric J. Silverman
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 177
Release 2019-08-27
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1793608849

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Thirty-five years ago Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue established virtue ethics as a major challenger to competing visions of morality, but there is still considerable disagreement concerning which version of virtue ethics provides the best approach. The Supremacy of Love describes and advocates an agape-centered vision of Aristotelian virtue ethics that portrays love as the most important moral virtue, and the goals of love as a partial constituent of every genuine virtue. This structural improvement to Aristotelian virtue ethics—found originally in the ethics of Thomas Aquinas—enables this account to address several controversial topics in contemporary virtue ethics, including why the virtues cannot be used badly, in what sense is there a unity between the virtues, how the virtues benefit the virtuous person, and how virtues provide action guidance. Eric J. Silverman demonstrates how and why a distinctly love-centered approach to virtue ethics should make the view widely attractive in comparison to alternative accounts of virtue ethics, duty based deontological theories, as well as results-based consequentialist views.

Loves Me, Loves Me Not

Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Title Loves Me, Loves Me Not PDF eBook
Author Laura Smit
Publisher Baker Academic
Pages 272
Release 2005-11
Genre Religion
ISBN 080102997X

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This well-researched and accessible book explores the experience of unrequited love in light of the biblical witness to God's love for humanity.

Just Love

Just Love
Title Just Love PDF eBook
Author Margaret Farley
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 337
Release 2008-02-15
Genre Religion
ISBN 144114420X

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Winner of the 2008 Grawemeyer Award in Religion This long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. It begins with historical and cross-cultural explorations, then addresses the large questions of embodiment, gender, and sexuality, and finally delineates the justice framework for sexual ethics. Though Just Love's particular focus is Christian sexual ethics, Farley's framework is broad enough to have relevance for multiple traditions. Also covered are specific issues in sexual ethics, including same-sex relationships, marriage and family, divorce and second marriage.

Love and Christian Ethics

Love and Christian Ethics
Title Love and Christian Ethics PDF eBook
Author Frederick V. Simmons
Publisher Georgetown University Press
Pages 409
Release 2016
Genre Religion
ISBN 1626163677

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At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the recording of the Christian gospels, and in recent decades teachers and students of Christian ethics have engaged in vigorous debates about appropriate interpretations and implications of this critical norm. In Love and Christian Ethics, nearly two dozen leading experts analyze and assess the meaning of love from a wide range of perspectives. Chapters are organized into three areas: influential sources and exponents of Western Christian thought about the ethical significance of love, perennial theoretical questions attending that consideration, and the implications of Christian love for important social realities. Contributors bring a richness of thought and experience to deliver unprecedentedly broad and rigorous analysis of this central tenet of Christian ethics and faith. William Werpehowski provides an afterword on future trajectories for this research. Love and Christian Ethics is sure to become a benchmark resource in the field.

The Right to be Loved

The Right to be Loved
Title The Right to be Loved PDF eBook
Author S. Matthew Liao
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 273
Release 2015
Genre Law
ISBN 0190234830

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Many international declarations claim that children have a right to be loved, but some see this as empty rhetoric. S. Matthew Liao defends the existence of this right by offering a novel justification for it and by detailing the nature and distribution of the duty to love children.