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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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Lysis Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author(s): Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. Stanley Lombardo, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue

• Philia (Friendship)

  Plato's inquiry into friendship/love (philia) in the Lysis — an aporetic dialogue that defines nothing yet deposits the conceptual materials two later theories will mine: Plato's own erotics in the Symposium and Aristotle's philia in the E…

• 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-…

• 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)…