Selfless love and human flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch [electronic resource] / Julia T. Meszaros.
2016
BJ1474 .M45 2016eb
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Selfless love and human flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch [electronic resource] / Julia T. Meszaros.
ISBN
9780191820502 (electronic book)
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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English
Description
1 online resource (227 pages).
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198765868 doi
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BJ1474 .M45 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
128.46
Summary
In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' often appears as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. Such a perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it. It therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, this book enquires into the anthropological grounds on which selfless love can be said to build up the lover's self.
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In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' often appears as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. Such a perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it. It therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, this book enquires into the anthropological grounds on which selfless love can be said to build up the lover's self.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Oxford theology and religion monographs.
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Table of Contents
1. Selfless love contested: framing the debate
2. Grappling with a tension: love and the self in Søren Kierkegaard
3. From tension to dichotomy: selfless love after Kierkegaard
4. A participatory individual: the self in Paul Tillich
5. Eros and agape: love in Paul Tillich
6. 'A mechanism of attachments': the self in Iris Murdoch
7. Eros and attention: love in Iris Murdoch
8. Recovering selfless love: final evaluations.
2. Grappling with a tension: love and the self in Søren Kierkegaard
3. From tension to dichotomy: selfless love after Kierkegaard
4. A participatory individual: the self in Paul Tillich
5. Eros and agape: love in Paul Tillich
6. 'A mechanism of attachments': the self in Iris Murdoch
7. Eros and attention: love in Iris Murdoch
8. Recovering selfless love: final evaluations.