{"product_id":"the-nature-of-love-volume-1-plato-to-luther-9780262512725","title":"The Nature of Love, Volume 1: Plato to Luther","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn analysis of concepts of bestowal, appraisal, imagination, and idealization followed by explorations into the writings of thinkers that include Plato, Ovid, and Martin Luther.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving Singer's trilogy \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Love\u003c\/i\u003e has been called \"majestic\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \"monumental\" (\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), \"one of the major works of philosophy in our century\" (\u003ci\u003eNous\u003c\/i\u003e), \"wise and magisterial\" (\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e), and a \"masterpiece of critical thinking [that] is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round\" (\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first volume, Singer begins by studying love as appraisal and bestowal as well as imagination and idealization. He then examines the contrasting views of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Ovid, Lucretius, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther. After having described the nature of erotic idealization, Singer analyzes the religious idealization in Judeo-Christian concepts of eros, philia, nomos, and agape. Medieval Catholicism sought to combine these four ideas of love in the \"caritas synthesis.\" Luther repudiated that attempt on the grounds that love exists only in God's agapastic bestowal of unlimited goodness upon humanity and all of nature. In relation to the different modes of theorizing, Singer explores the humanistic implications of each.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Irving Singer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Irving Singer Library #1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262512725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevised Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45463124934793,"sku":"9780262512725","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_46bf2d07-8ed9-498c-894f-a216af11cbc7.jpg?v=1774997576","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-nature-of-love-volume-1-plato-to-luther-9780262512725","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}