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Works of Love (Danish: Kjerlighedens Gjerninger) is a book by Søren Kierkegaard, written in 1847. It is one of the works which he published under his own name, as opposed to his more famous "pseudonymous" works.
Works of Love; Translated from the Danish by David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson. With an introduction by Douglas V. Steere. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1946. Works of Love; Edited and translated with introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1995.
Loving means to presuppose love in others. Søren Kierkegaard Works of Love, Hong pp. 222–224. Later, in the same book, Kierkegaard deals with the question of sin and forgiveness. He uses the same text he used earlier in Three Upbuilding Discourses, 1843, Love hides a multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:8). He asks if "one who tells his neighbors ...
Comparison is the most disastrous association that love can enter into; comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make; comparison is the worst of all seductions. Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love (1847), Hong, p. 186
The focus, however, is on English works: the poems of Chaucer, Gower's Confessio Amantis and Usk's Testament of Love, the works of Chaucer's epigones, and Spenser's Faerie Queene. The book is ornamented with quotations from poems in many languages, including Classical and Medieval Latin, Middle English, and Old French. The piquant English ...
The roots of the classical philosophy of love go back to Plato's Symposium. [3] Plato's Symposium digs deeper into the idea of love and bringing different interpretations and points of view in order to define love. [4] Plato singles out three main threads of love that have continued to influence the philosophies of love that followed.
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In this work, Fromm develops his perspective on human nature from his earlier works, Escape from Freedom and Man for Himself – principles which he revisits in many of his other major works. He criticizes the popular conception of love and asserts that "love is the only provision for a sane and satisfying human existence".