CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES I, CULTURE AND VALUES VOLUME 15

 

 

 

 

 

Human Love, Its Meaning and Scope

 

A Phenomenology of Gift and Encounter

 

 

 

by

ALFONSO LOPEZ QUINTAS

 

 

CONTENTS

 

 

PREFACE

 

FOREWORD

 

Chapter I. Love as Meeting or Encounter

 

Chapter II. Ecstasy Establishes Encounter,Which Vertigo Destroys It

 

Chapter III. The Direction of One’s Life Depends on the Ideals Which one Follows

 

Chapter IV. The Ideal of Unity and the Achievement of True Freedom

 

Chapter V. Ethics and the Structure of Human Life

 

Chapter VI. An Ethical Life Is an Integrative Life

 

Chapter VII. Preparation for Marital Love I: the Need to Integrate its Four Aspects

 

Chapter VIII. Preparing for Marital Love II: Integrating Desires and Ideals

 

Chapter IX. Value of Courtship

 

Chapter X. Modesty and the Riches of Marital Love

 

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