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Christian Love (Simmel's Reconstruction)
Simmel's philosophical reconstruction of Christian love as a distinct trans-vital love-form, structurally opposed to universal-philanthropy: Christian love embraces the total person — sinner as sinner, "without that 'in spite of'" (Oakes p…
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Diotima
The priestess of Mantinea whom Socrates, in Plato's Symposium (201d–212a), names as his teacher "in the things of love" (ta erōtika) and whose doctrine of love he reports. Diotima delivers the dialogue's philosophical core: love as lack an…
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Eros (Platonic Love)
Plato's account of love, developed in the Symposium through Diotima's teaching (reported by Socrates). Its central original move is to redefine love away from the beautiful beloved (the object) toward the needy lover (the desirer): love is…
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Individualism of Love
Simmel's spectrum from love-by-type to love-by-individuality — anchored in the contrast between Goethe's two cardinal couples: Faust/Gretchen (love by type; replaceability remains possible in principle) and Eduard/Ottilie (in Wahlverwandts…
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Love as a Formative Category
Simmel's thesis in On Love (a fragment) (1923): love is one of the great formative categories of existence, joining the object of knowledge, the object of faith, and the object of valuation as a fundamental category of the subject-world re…
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On Love (a fragment)
Author: Georg Simmel · Year: 1984 (translation; original German 1923, composition ca. 1907–1918) · Type: fragment
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Symposium
Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue
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The Tragedy of Love (Simmel)
Simmel's philosophical articulation of love's tragic structure: love is tragic not because external fate destroys it, not because lovers collide with ethical substances, not because of any hamartia — but because love grows out of the life-…
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Universal Philanthropy
Simmel's articulation of a distinct trans-vital love-form: love directed at "everything that bears a human face" (Oakes p. 211), abstracted from individuality, kindred to but structurally distinct from both cosmic eros (pantheism of love)…