""Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause." Spinoza's definition of love manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth-century Europe, in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative "forces of nature," were embraced by the new science of the min…
In this book the author discusses the modern use of love as a central value and its application to a new form of philosophy.
"This book examines the fundamental importance of eros in Plato's writing, arguing that he sees the world as erotic from cosmic origins to human death." "Plato's entire fictive world is permeated with philosophical concern for eros, well beyond the so-called erotic dialogues. S…
Explores the philosophical notion of love, and argues that love is more complex than conventional thought would have us believe.
