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Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2001
ISBN
0195130251, 9780195130256
Open Library ID
OL7388866M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19462165 bytes)
Edition
First
Pages
336\329
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love (1847), a series of deliberations on the commandment to love one's neighbor, has often been condemned by critics. Here, Ferreira seeks to rehabilitate Works of Love as one of Kierkegaard's most important works. He shows that Kierkegaard's deliberations on love are highly relevant to some important themes in contemporary ethics, including impartiality, duty, equality, mutuality, reciprocity, self-love, sympathy, and sacrifice. Ferreira also argues that Works of Love bears on issues peculiar to a religious ethic, such as the role of God as ''middle term,'' and the possibility of preserving the aesthetic dimensions of love in a religious ethic of relation.

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