Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up Book

Contents

Foreword by Alan Soble....................ix
Prefatory Note....................xiii
Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up....................1
Is Romantic Love a Recent Idea?....................1
Plato....................7
Beyond Idealism....................13
Concepts of Transcendence and Merging....................16
Courtly Love and Its Successors....................28
Varieties of Romantic Love....................38
Identification of Love and Passion....................44
Bestowal and Appraisal in Relation to Freud....................51
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche....................59
Implications for Marriage....................67
Dualism and Freud on Erotic Degradation....................73
Democracy as Related to Romanticism....................81
Existentialism....................86
The Love of Life: A Pluralist Perspective....................95
Harmonization of Dewey and Santayana....................105
The Role of Creativity....................112
Future Prospects for the Philosophy of Love: Science and Humanistic Studies United....................117
Index....................121