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4. Love as perfect friendship: Aristotle

From the book Love

  • Simon May
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300177237-006
© Yale University Press, New Haven
From the book
Love
Love

Chapters in this book (23)

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Love plays God
2. The foundation of Western love: Hebrew Scripture
3. From physical desire to paradise: Plato
4. Love as perfect friendship: Aristotle
5. Love as sexual desire: Lucretius and Ovid
6. Love as the supreme virtue: Christianity
7. Why Christian love isn’t unconditional
8. Women as ideals love and the troubadours
10. Love as joyful understanding of the whole: Spinoza
11. Love as Enlightened Romanticism: Rousseau
12. Love as religion: Schlegel and Novalis
13. Love as the urge to procreate: Schopenhauer
14. Love as affirmation of life: Nietzsche
15. Love as a history of loss: Freud
16. Love as terror and tedium: Proust
17. Love reconsidered
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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