Love / by John Cowburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowburn, John.

Series:

Marquette studies in philosophy ; #36.

Marquette studies in philosophy ; no. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love.

Love--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Love

Marquette Studies in Philosophy

Title Page

© Page

Note

Introduction

Table of Contents

Part 1 Self-love and Love in General

1 Acceptance

2 Self-love

3 The altruism debate

Part 2 Solidarity-love

4 Having children

5 Parental love

6 Small sons and daughters: how they love their parents and the benefits to them of being loved by their parents

7 The parent-child relationship when children are older and when they are adults

8 Fraternal and similar loves

9 False forms of solidarity-love

10 Solidarity-love in general

Part 3 Ecstatic Love

11 The steps towards ecstatic love

12 Ecstatic love

13 The other person's nature and qualities

14 Ecstatic love is mutual and free: the relationship

15 The future

16 The benefits and significance of ecstatic love

Part 4 The Two Kinds of Ecstatic Love: Sexual Love and Friendship

17 Sexual love and friendship

18 Sexual love

19 The sexual relationship

20 Marriage

21 The significance of sexual love

22 Sexual pseudo-love

23 Friendship

Part 5 The Two Loves

24 The two loves

25 Two theories of love

26 How universal is all this?

Part 6 Theological Implications

27 Theological implications

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-87462-943-8

0-585-49617-X

OCLC:

179098058