The Metaphysics Of The Love Of The Sexes

The Metaphysics Of The Love Of The Sexes
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: FV Éditions
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2013-09-28
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 236668665X

Is 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.

The Metaphysics of the Sexual Love

The Metaphysics of the Sexual Love
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2018-12-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781791542269

"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.

Eros and the Mysteries of Love

Eros and the Mysteries of Love
Author: Julius Evola
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1991-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780892813155

A 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

What Love Is
Author: Carrie Jenkins
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 046509886X

A 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

Plotinus on Love: An Introduction to His Metaphysics through the Concept of Eros
Author: Alberto Bertozzi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004441026

In 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 Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love
Author: Christopher Grau
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 681
Release: 2024
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199395721

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love offers a wide array of original essays from leading philosophers on the nature and value of love.

The Philosophy of (erotic) Love

The Philosophy of (erotic) Love
Author: Robert C. Solomon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1991
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Solomon 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.

The Metaphysics of Love

The Metaphysics of Love
Author: Stella Sandford
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2001-11-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1847144454

Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the basis and the details of his philosophical project--a metaphysics which affirms the necessity to think of an unqualified transcendence as a first principle. Sandford's book is at the same time a powerful feminist critique of both Levinas's gendered philosophical categories and the attempt to reclaim aspects of this philosophy for feminist theory.