The many facets of love : philosophical explorations / edited by Thomas Jay Oord.

Three views of love: egoism, disinterest, and harmonism / Alan Vincelette -- Second selves and genuine others: Kierkegaard and Aristotle on friendship and self-love / John Lippitt -- Process answers to love questions / Thomas Jay Oord -- Divine paradox and harmony: Whitehead and Jung on the love of god / Young Woon Ko -- Process, parturition, and perfect love: Diotima's rather non-platonic metaphysic of eros / Donald Wayne Viney -- Love, pattern experience, and the problem of evil / Adam Green -- Championing divine love and solving the problem of evil / Thomas Jay Oord -- The impassible suffered: divine love and the doctrine of divine impassibility / Kent Dunnington -- Is love an affection or an emotion? looking at Wesley's heart language in a new light / Gregory S. Clapper -- Love, depression, and empathy: demotivating the problem of other minds / Brint Montgomery -- Metaphysics of the person: love as foundation and fulfillment / Maria Fedoryka -- Political philia and sacramental love / Eric Manchester -- The duty to love in a just, deliberative democracy: Habermas and Kierkegaard on political morality / Mark G. Thames -- The light that charity knows: Tsong-ka-pa and Maximus the Confessor on love / H.S. Horton-Parker -- Naturalism: a crude instrument in the search for a beloved? / Teri Merrick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Poets, theologians, romantics, scientists, and revolutionaries alike have explored the many facets of love. Judging by the wide use of the word ""love"" and the high praise it typically receives, we might think that philosophers have thoroughly analyzed lo.

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