Arkadiusz Gudaniec
ISBN: 978-83-8061-015-6
Pages: 298
Format: A5 (hard cover)
Year: 2015
Language: Polish


CONTENTS

Publisher's word

List of abbreviations of Saint Thomas' writings

Introduction
1. Love as a theoretical problem
2. Main conceptions of love in the history of philosophical thought
3. Disinterestedness and paradox
4. Summary of current research
5. Approach proposed
6. Book's structure

Chapter I
The nature of love
1. Love and appetition (appetitus)
2. Love as a feeling (passion)
3. Love as an adaptation (coaptatio) and a complacence (complacentia)
4. Love as a first movement and source of acting (principium motus)
5. Love and finality

Chapter II
Man and love - posing a paradox
1. The aspect of the subject of love
1.1. The problem of personal love
1.2. The rationality and freedom of a personal being
1.3. Relation between will (reason) and feeling
1.a. The aporia of nature and the paradox of rationality
2. The aspect of the object of love
2.1. Love of friendship and love of concupiscence
2.2. Love and friendship or benevolence
2.a. The aporia of good and the paradox of the other
3. The aspect of the relation of love
3.1. Substantial oneness and self-love
3.2. Affective oneness and real union
3.3. Ecstasy in love
3.4. The problem of the love of God above all things
3.a. The aporia of unity and the paradox of happiness
4. Conclusions

Chapter III
Love and the good of a person - resolving the paradox
1. Man as a personal being
1.1. Spiritual and corporeal compositum
1.2. The transcendence of a person
1.3. The natural love of will
1.4. Personal source of human love
1.a. Resolving the paradox of rationality
2. Person and good
2.1. Essential features of division into love of friendship and love of concupiscence
2.2. The simplified version of the division of love
2.3. The analogous understanding of good
2.4. The objective dimension of love
2.a. Resolving the paradox of the other
3. Self-love, the love of the other, the love of God
3.1. The problem of self-love
3.2. The sense of loving others
3.3. The love of God and the happiness of a man
3.a. Resolving the paradox of happiness

Conclusion
The fulfillment of a person in love

Summary
Index of names
Index of subjects
Bibliography