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Does love conquer all? Is it a many splendored thing? Or is it, as Schopenhauer thought, just natures way of duping us into producing the next generation? Whats good about being in the grip of a delusion that requires a ridiculously inflated estimation of the subject of our affections? How can the grasping, selfish, egocentric behaviour that intimate love brings be a subject worthy of poets? Philosopher Tony Milligan brings his keen analytical skills to bear on our need to love and be loved. Along the way, filial, parental and friendship love are discussed, but the main focus of his attention is the sexualised, intimate love that can exist between partners, and which has been idolized for millennia. Milligan explores how the nature of love and our experience of it is inextricably bound up with our own notions of self and self-doubt. He considers the place of intimacy, togetherness, and sexual desire in love and uses the notions of loss, irreplaceability and shared history to illustrate the nature of love. Anyone who has lived and loved will find Milligans exploration illuminating and insightful.
Love. --- Love --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Philosophy.
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In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body of evidence-2,700 court opinions-describes a society characterized by a presupposed absence of physical and emotional intimacy, affection, and personal connections. In compelling, poignant, and sometimes horrifying court cases, West finds that Japanese judges frequently opine on whether a person is in love, what other emotions a person is feeling, and whether those emotions are appropriate for the situation.Sometimes judges' views about love, sex, and marriage emerge from their presentation of the facts of cases. Among the recurring elements are abortions forced by men, compensated dating, late-life divorces, termination fees to end affairs, sexless couples, Valentine's Day heartbreak, "soapland" bath-brothels, and home-wrecking hostesses.Sometimes the judges' analysis, decisions, and commentary are as revealing as the facts. Sex in the cases is a choice among private "normal" sex, which is male-dominated, conservative, dispassionate, or nonexistent; commercial sex, which caters to every fetish but is said to lead to rape, murder, and general social depravity; and a hybrid of the two, which commodifies private sexual relationships. Marriage is contractual; judges express the ideal of love in marriage and proclaim its importance, but virtually no one in the court cases achieves it. Love usually appears as a tragic, overwhelming emotion associated with jealousy, suffering, heartache, and death.
Divorce --- Marriage --- Love --- Sex customs --- Broken homes --- Divorced people --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Japan --- Social life and customs.
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The joke is that all the prostitutes go on vacation when the philosophers come to town. The reason that the other conventioneers do it; philosophers just talk about it. And talk about sex and love, and friendship is what the contributors to this volume do! They talk and argue, split hairs and clarify, all trying to advance our understanding of this most interesting practice of the human species. Some of the best minds on three continents, from four nations, and eighteen of the United States discuss such topics as adultery, commitment, cross dressing, gender politics, date rape, family, friendship, friends as lovers, gayness, love, marital pluralism, marriage, prostitution, religiously motivated anti-queer sentiments, same sex marriage, seduction, and self-respect. Rather than preach, participants probe our attitudes and practices involving these issues with the aim of better understanding the broad range of sexual practices of our species. The result is a collection of stimulating essays that can enliven class discussions as well as provide guidance for the sexually perplexed. The work is accessible to readers from high school through college and beyond.
Sex. --- Love. --- Friendship. --- Homosexuality. --- Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Affection --- Friendliness --- Conduct of life --- Interpersonal relations --- Love --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology
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Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love's moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon--an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato's Symposium, love is "something in between." Jollimore makes his case by proposing a "vision" view of love, according to which loving is a way of seeing that involves bestowing charitable attention on a loved one. This view recognizes the truth in the cliché "love is blind," but holds that love's blindness does not undermine the idea that love is guided by reason. Reasons play an important role in love even if they rest on facts that are not themselves rationally justifiable. Filled with illuminating examples from literature, Love's Vision is an original examination of a subject of vital philosophical and human concern.
Love. --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Love --- agents. --- attention. --- attractiveness. --- blind. --- blindness. --- desirable. --- emotion. --- empathy. --- epistemic rationality. --- epistemic standards. --- immoral. --- immorality. --- love. --- lover. --- lovers. --- loving persons. --- maximizing requirement. --- moral danger. --- moral phenomenon. --- moral status. --- morality. --- motivation. --- particular. --- passion. --- rational evaluation. --- rationalism. --- rationality. --- reason. --- reasons. --- self-concern. --- universal. --- value. --- vision. --- Philosophical anthropology
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Love is a necessary ingredient of effective pedagogy, yet to this point there has been a distinct lack of serious theoretical and practical work on the topic. What does it really mean to adopt a loving approach to pedagogy? This book provides a pragmatic and thoughtful treatment of the topic of love as pedagogy, examining the use and role of love in teaching and learning, and providing suggestions on how educators can effectively recognise and use love in their work. This text begins with a discussion of what love is, what pedagogy is, and how the two are inseparable in an effective educational context. It then moves on to address ethical considerations. Drawing on discourse on love found in psychology, philosophy, and religion the text examines various aspects of love and their relationship to effective teaching and learning including kindness and empathy, intimacy and bonding, sacrifice and forgiveness, and acceptance and community. This book concludes with a photographic case study of loving pedagogy in action and practical suggestions for educators wishing to adopt the approach. This text is suitable for educators at all levels, especially those in early childhood, elementary, and secondary school settings along with students in education and related programs at universities and colleges. Tim Loreman, PhD., is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Concordia University College of Alberta, Canada.
Education -- Aims and objectives. --- Education -- Philosophy. --- Love. --- Teaching -- Psychological aspects. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Teaching --- Philosophy. --- Aims and objectives. --- Psychological aspects. --- Affection --- Aims and objectives of education --- Educational aims and objectives --- Educational goals --- Educational objectives --- Educational purposes --- Goals, Educational --- Instructional objectives --- Objectives, Educational --- Purposes, Educational --- Education. --- Learning & Instruction. --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Educational sociology --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Training --- Learning. --- Instruction. --- Learning process --- Comprehension --- Study and teaching.
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At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office.But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganization of a surprising array of issues in East German public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture. Throughout its forty-year existence the East German state was plagued with an ongoing problem of legitimacy. The love story's unique and unpredictable mix of stabilizing and subversive effects gave it a peculiar status in the cultural sphere.Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party's legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love story's destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. A unique contribution to German studies, Legal Tender offers remarkable insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture.
German fiction -- Germany (East) -- History and criticism. --- Germany (East) -- Civilization. --- Love -- Social aspects -- Germany (East). --- Love in literature. --- Love in motion pictures. --- Love stories, German -- Germany (East) -- History and criticism. --- Romance films -- Germany (East) -- History. --- Romance fiction, German --- German fiction --- Romance films --- Love in literature --- Love in motion pictures --- Love --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Social aspects --- Love stories, German --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Germany (East) --- Civilization. --- Affection --- Chick flicks --- Love films --- Hollywood romance films --- Romance (Motion pictures) --- Romance movies --- Romance pictures (Motion pictures) --- Romantic films --- Romantic movies --- German romance fiction --- Germany (Democratic Republic, 1949- ) --- Deutsche Demokratische Republik --- Tyske demokratiske republik --- Democratic German Republic --- German Democratic Republic --- East German Democratic Republic --- East Germany (Democratic Republic) --- DDR --- Germanskai︠a︡ Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Nĕmecká demokratická republika --- NDR --- Nimet︠s︡ʹka Demokratychna Respublika --- GDR --- Niemiecka Republika Demokratyczna --- NRD --- Német Demokratikus Köztársaság --- NDK --- Tyska demokratiska republiken --- Östtyskland --- Republica Democrată Germană --- Repubblica democratica tedesca --- Germany (Democratic Republic) --- D.D.R. --- N.D.R. --- G.D.R. --- N.R.D. --- N.D.K. --- República Democrática Alemana --- RDA --- R.D.A. --- Ostdeutschland --- Eastern Germany --- Cộng hòa dân chủ Đức --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Motion pictures --- Germany --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Literature: history & criticism
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