Synopses & Reviews
Love comes in many forms. From friendship to parenthood, from the lover to the altruist, it touches all our lives. As time passes this remains constant in the human experience. Love's Philosophy explores the basic expressions of love. In this book, White takes into account friendship, parenthood, romance, and universal love in classical and modern perspectives. Does love abandon reason to embrace our lower passionate selves? His reflections explain that the philosophical abandonment of love has been a mistake. The historical and contemporary formations of love define it as an absolutely central aspect of human nature, and offer alternative models to that most encompassing sensation, love.
Synopsis
Love comes in many forms and touches all our lives, and despite its changing history, it remains constant in human experience. Love's Philosophy explores the basic expressions of love. In this book, White looks at friendship, romance, parenthood, and humanitarian love in classical and contemporary perspective. He argues that the philosophical oblivion of love has been a mistake. By examining both the historical and contemporary formations of love, he proposes alternative models to guide both our thinking and our experience of loving.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.