The Metaphysics of Love

ISBN-13: 9781412862585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 148 str.

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen; Patrick Lee

Opis

The Metaphysics of Love develops the existential metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas, applying it to explore the ontological structure of the human person. Published first in 1962, this book demonstrates the fertility of Thomistic metaphysics and the enduring influence of Thomism on Western philosophy. It uncovers the ecstatic structure of human existence, in dialogue with philosophers ranging from Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, to Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Tillich, Zubiri, and Ortega y Gassett, as well as theologians and historians Romano Guardini, Hilaire Belloc, and Eric Voegelin.Philosophical and theological examinations of love have in various ways raised the following question: how can love of self (eros) be harmonized with love of others (agape)? These types of love represent two drives, Wilhelmsen argues, that in the end must be seen as aspects of existence itself. Moral and psychological problems of love turn out to be manifestations of metaphysical issues.While different cultures have emphasized one of these drives or the other, a healthy culture will not completely forget either. Cultures differ in the way they emphasize one or the other, or flee from one or the other. These dimensions of human existence provide the framework for a person's love of self, neighbour, and God. This volume is part of Transaction's Library of Conservative Thought series.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Transaction
Edition, by Patrick Lee

Preface

Acknowledgments

I Tragedy, Ecstasy, and History

II Being as Ecstasy in Contemporary
Spanish Philosophy
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Xavier Zubiri
Agape and Being

III Non-Being, Power, and Love
Paul Tillich: Being as the Power to Be
Paul Tillich: The Primacy of Power within Protestantism
The Experience of Non-Being and the Western Tradition
The Primacy of Love within the Catholic Order

O autorze

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen