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Among his love-sick targets, Catullus, along with others like Héloïse, would find himself summoned in the 12C to a Love's Assize. [17] From the ranks of such figures would emerge the concept of courtly love, [18] and from that Petrarchism would form the rhetorical/philosophical foundations of romantic love for the early modern world.
The four types of love described in philosophy include agape, phileo, storge, and eros. Agape is a type of unconditional love that is less common in society but more apparent between individuals and their god. Phileo is a love used to describe friendship between individuals. This love is commonly seen between friends in public, especially as ...
Talk; Category: Philosophers of love. 13 languages. ... Pages in category "Philosophers of love" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus. University of Chicago Press. Blyth, Dougal. 1997. “The Ever-Moving Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus.” The American Journal of Philology 118: 185–217. Campbell, Douglas R. "SelfâMotion and Cognition: Plato's Theory of the Soul" Southern Journal of Philosophy 59 (4): 523 ...
Beauty then is the perennial philosopher, the "lover of wisdom" (the Greek word "philia" being one of the four words for love). After describing Love's origins, that provide clues to its nature, Diotima asks Socrates why is it, as he had previously agreed, that love is always that "of beautiful things" (204b).
The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. [1] The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticised in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex.
Through practicing love, and thus producing love, the individual overcomes the dependence on being loved, having to be "good" to deserve love. He contrasts the immature phrases "I love because I am loved" and "I love you because I need you" with mature expressions of love, "I am loved because I love", and "I need you because I love you." [33]
Vallicella has a Ph.D. (Boston College; 1978), taught for a number of years at University of Dayton (where he was a tenured Associate Professor of Philosophy; 1978–91) and Case Western Reserve University (Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy; 1989–91), and retired to Gold Canyon, Arizona from where he now contributes to philosophy mainly online.